US11071579B2
An electrosurgical medical device includes an elongate shaft defining a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen there through. A fluid conduit is disposed within the lumen. A first electrode is at least partially disposed within the lumen and extends distally from the distal end of the shaft, the first electrode is sized and configured to cut tissue with radiofrequency energy. A second electrode is arranged in a bipolar configuration with the first electrode, the second electrode is coupled to ground and configured to receive radiofrequency energy from the first electrode. The second electrode is defined by at least a portion the shaft and extending a distance away from the distal end of the shaft.
US11071578B2
A method of altering adipose tissue includes creating an electrochemical reaction in the tissue, wherein the electrochemical reaction occurs in the presence of an electrolytic solution in the tissue.
US11071573B2
Implants for the fusion or fixation of two bone segments are described. For example, the implants can be used for the fusion or fixation of the sacroiliac joint. The implants can have a matrix structure, have a rectilinear cross-sectional area, and have a curvature.
US11071552B2
A device for treating tissue includes a capsule defining a channel extending therethrough and clip arms. Each of the arms includes a proximal part releasably coupled to a distal part, a proximal portion of the distal part configured to be received within the channel of the capsule so that the arms move proximally and distally relative to the capsule between a tissue receiving configuration, in which distal ends of the arms are separated from one another, and a tissue clipping configuration, in which distal ends of the arms are moved toward one another. The proximal portion of each of the arms is configured to release from the corresponding distal part to lock the distal part of each of the arms over a portion of target tissue to be clipped while the proximal parts of the alms are removed from the body.
US11071550B2
Disclosed herein are methods and devices for treating pancreatitis. In the methods described herein, the distal portion of a catheter is routed into the pancreatic duct. The catheter delivers to the pancreatic duct an effective amount of a composition at an effective infusion pressure, wherein the amount and infusion pressure of the composition are effective to decrease the secretion of digestive enzymes from one or more exocrine tissues of the pancreas. The reduction of digestive enzymes may reduce damage to the islet cells typically seen in chronic pancreatitis. Backflow of the composition out of the pancreatic duct is limited, for example, by an occluding system, and aspiration system, or both.
US11071548B2
An apparatus includes a shaft assembly and an end effector. The shaft assembly includes an outer sheath and a staple driving mechanism. The end effector includes a staple deck, an anvil, a first staple driver, and a second staple driver. The staple deck defines a plurality of staple openings in at least one annular array. Each staple opening in the plurality of staple openings houses a staple. The anvil is configured to actuate relative to the staple deck to compress tissue between the staple deck and the anvil. The staple driving mechanism is configured to actuate the first staple driver to fire a first staple of the plurality of staples against the anvil. The staple driving mechanism is further configured to actuate the second staple driver independently of the first staple driver to fire a second staple of the plurality of staples against the anvil.
US11071547B2
An abdominal closure method and device is disclosed where the device generally includes a first tissue securement member configured for securement to a first tissue region and a second tissue securement member configured for securement to a second tissue region. The first and second tissue securement members are coupled to the connecting member and the connecting member is positionable at a distance from the first and second tissue regions. Additionally, one or more biasing elements may be connected to the first and second tissue securement members to approximate the first and second tissue regions towards one another via respective securement members.
US11071544B2
A medical instrument having a tool assembly including a pair of opposing tissue engaging surfaces for clamping tissue therebetween. The medical instrument includes a housing having a fixed handle and a movable handle mounted to the housing and selectively movable relative to the fixed handle from a first position in spaced relation relative to the fixed handle to a second position closer to the fixed handle to actuate the clamping of tissue. The medical instrument includes a selectively activatable drive assembly including a power source and a motor which is operatively coupled to the movable handle, wherein upon actuation the motor actuates the pair of opposing tissue engaging surfaces. The drive assembly includes a controller configured to variably control the rate at which the motor actuates the pair of opposing tissue engaging surfaces in response to the force exerted on the movable handle.
US11071526B2
A specimen collection and delivery apparatus for collecting clinical specimens and delivery of samples thereof to, e.g., microfluidic testing devices for diagnostic analysis is disclosed. The specimen collection and delivery apparatus includes a closure housing for coupling with a sample tube at one end, an open luer for coupling with a complementary luer on a microfluidic device at the other end, and a filter matrix disposed in the interior. The filter matrix is air permeable and liquid impermeable at atmospheric pressure and prevents sample from flowing through the open luer end when coupled to a sample tube containing a specimen. Under vacuum, the liquid sample fraction of the specimen can be drawn through the filter matrix and into the microfluidic testing device through the luer connection for diagnostic analysis.
US11071520B2
This application presents a system and related methods that analyze a volume of tissue using ultrasound waveform tomography imaging. By using frequency-domain waveform tomography techniques and a gradient descent algorithm, the system can reconstruct the sound speed distributions of a volume of tissue, such as breast tissue, of varying densities with different types of lesions. By allowing sound speed to have an imaginary component that characterizes sound attenuation, the system can classify the different types of lesions with a fine granularity.
US11071517B2
A method for ultrasound diagnosis includes determining a first risk of malignancy based on a human assessment of a first set of features of one or more ultrasound images of a target; determining a second risk of malignancy based on an automatically extracted second set of features of the one or more ultrasound images; determining at least one overall risk value based on the first risk of malignancy and the second risk of malignancy; and characterizing the at least one overall risk value as one of a high confidence assessment or a low confidence assessment.
US11071515B2
Augmented reality systems and methods for user health analysis. Methods for user health analysis may include collecting data for an initial prediction model and continuing to collect additional data based on one or more data criteria. The methods may further include updating the initial prediction model based on the additional data to produce a revised prediction model or causing an intervention to occur based on the additional data. The data may be collected by a display system including one or more sensors configured to collect user-specific data and a display device configured to present virtual content to a user. The display device may be configured to output light with variable wavefront divergence.
US11071514B2
Some embodiments include a system, comprising: an integrating detector including a plurality of pixels, each pixel configured to integrate signal from photons of a radiation beam; and an energy sensing detector overlapping the plurality of pixels of the integrating detector and configured to generate energy information in response to the radiation beam.
US11071509B2
The present invention provides a method, including: obtaining a first image from a first imaging modality; identifying on the first image from the first imaging modality obtaining a second image from a second imaging modality; generating a compatible virtual image from the first image from the first imaging modality; mapping planning data on the compatible virtual image; coarse registering of the second image from the second imaging modality to the first image from the first imaging modality; identifying at least one element of the mapped planning data from the compatible virtual image; identifying at least one corresponding element on the second imaging modality; mapping the at least one corresponding element on the second imaging modality; fine registering of the second image from the second imaging modality to the first image from the first imaging modality; generating a third image.
US11071499B2
The present disclose generally relates to a multichannel low-noise amplifier. At each input to the multichannel low-noise amplifiers, a plurality of transistors can be connected in parallel. This parallel connection decreases the voltage noise beyond what is possible using a single input transistor at each input. As an additional benefit, the initial operating region of the input transistors is not changed. The multichannel low-noise amplifier can be incorporated on a single integrated circuit chip to amplify biological signals to facilitate selective recording of a property (e.g., amplifying neural signals to facilitate selective recording of neural activity).
US11071497B2
A wearable medical device includes a frame and a lens coupled to the frame. The lens is configured to be positioned proximate eyes of a user. At least one lamp device is coupled to the frame. The at least one lamp device emits light forward from the frame. A controller activates and controls the at least one lamp device.
US11071492B2
A physiological information processing apparatus includes an acquiring section that acquires physiological information of a subject, a classifying section that classifies the physiological information that is acquired by the acquiring section, and an analyzing section that selects an algorithm from a plurality of algorithms according to a result of the classification performed by the classifying section, and that analyzes the classified physiological information by using the selected algorithm.
US11071483B2
A mood score calculation apparatus has a memory device that stores a manipulation history of a user on a predetermined device and a arithmetic device that classifies the manipulation history into any one of a verbal task and a spatial task on the basis of a predetermined algorithm, calculates the user's mood score on the basis of a relative relationship between the manipulation histories for each of the verbal task and the spatial task specified in the classification, and outputs information on the mood score into a predetermined output target.
US11071477B2
Disclosed is sampling HF-QRS signals from a number of subjects (or derived values or features), and using e.g. deep learning-convolutional neural networks to find features or values which are (i) sufficiently similar for the same subject over all samples, yet (ii) sufficiently different among different subjects to allow identification. Also disclosed is finding signatures which are sufficiently stable over a particular period such that these signatures are within a deviation threshold, and then monitoring all subjects to be identified at least as often as the period used to establish the deviation threshold.
US11071473B2
In an example, the present invention provides an UWB and FMCW sensor apparatus, with an audio module and inertial motion module, using multi-core processing and an AI processor.
US11071468B2
A detecting apparatus and a detecting method for physiological information are provided. The detecting apparatus includes a first optical signal provider configured to provide an organism with a first optical signal, a signal receiver configured to receive the first physiological signal, and a processor. The first optical signal, after interacting with the organism, turns into a first physiological signal. The processor is configured to calculate a plurality of physiological information values of the organism according to the first physiological signal; determine whether or not any of the physiological information values is abnormal; and replace the abnormal physiological information value with a physiological information reliable value when there is the abnormal physiological information value.
US11071461B2
An acoustic wave detector detects photoacoustic waves generated by absorbing measurement light emitted toward a subject, and reflected acoustic waves with respect to acoustic waves transmitted toward the subject. A preamplifier amplifies a detection signal output by the acoustic wave detector. A bypass unit is intended to output the detection signal without passing through the preamplifier. Controller causes the preamplifier to enter an operating state and selects a first path along which the detection signal is amplified by the preamplifier and then is input to the reception circuit as a signal path in a case where the photoacoustic waves are detected. The controller stops an amplification operation in the preamplifier and selects a second path along which the detection signal is input to the reception circuit via a bypass unit as the signal path in a case where reflected acoustic waves are detected.
US11071458B2
The present application discloses a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-active photonic crystal fiber (PCF) probe including a biopsy needle in the PCF probe for integrated sample collection and SERS sensing of one or more analytes comprised in the sample. The PCF comprises solid core and a cladding region surrounding the solid core, wherein the cladding region comprises air holes functionalised by metallic nanoparticles. The application also provides a method for detecting one or more analytes using the PCF probe as well as the use of the PCF probe for the detection of one or more analytes.
US11071457B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for removing strands of hair from a near-infrared spectroscopy. The apparatus for removing strands of hair from a near-infrared spectroscopy may comprise: an arch-shaped main body worn on the head of a user, having a plurality of protrusions formed at an inner side part of the arch-shaped main body, and configured to expose a portion of scalp by arranging the strands of hair; a probe configured to come into close contact with the scalp; and a sensor configured to be accommodated inside the probe and receive light.
US11071451B2
A method for generating a radial alignment guide for an eye includes collecting preoperative alignment data relative to a pupil from an eye that is not dilated. The method also includes locating a pupil center of the eye while dilated. The method further includes displaying the alignment data on an image of the dilated eye relative to the pupil center. In particular embodiments, software embodied in a computer-readable medium is executable by a processor to perform the steps of such a method.
US11071450B2
Disclosed are systems, devices and methods for performing simulations using a multi-component Finite Element Model (FEM) of ocular structures involved in ocular accommodation.
US11071448B2
A length adjustable cannula includes: a pipe-like main body having a through hole formed therein and an outer circumferential surface on which a screw thread is formed; a base grip provided at an end of the main body; an inner support plate provided at another end of the main body; and an outer support plate thread-coupled with the outer circumferential surface of the main body, the outer support plate being movable along the screw thread in a lengthwise direction of the main body. A position of the outer support plate is adjusted based on a distance from an outside skin to a medical treatment region of a human body, such that the outer support plate is brought into contact with the outside skin and the inner support plate is brought into contact with and supported by an inside skin of the human body.
US11071443B2
Minimizing image sensor input/output pads in a pulsed laser mapping imaging system is disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system includes a plurality of bidirectional pads comprising an output state for issuing data and an input state for receiving data. The system includes a controller configured to synchronize timing of the emitter and the image sensor. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises a laser mapping pattern.
US11071440B2
A dishwasher and method for operating the same utilize a rack-mounted rotatable conduit with a return mechanism that positions the rotatable conduit to a predetermined rotational position when the conduit is disconnected from a docking arrangement on a wall of a wash tub.
US11071435B2
A system for dosing substances such as cleaning and/or care agents is disclosed. The system includes a dosing device, at least one energy source, a control unit, a sensor unit, and at least two cartridges for respectively accommodating at least one of the cleaning and/or care agents. The at least two cartridges are capable of being coupled to the dosing device.
US11071427B2
A handheld power tool comprises a cruise control actuator (22), which is mechanically connected to a controller input actuator (27) so as to variably move the controller input actuator (27) in a trigger direction (T) based on the position of the cruise control actuator (22). The cruise control actuator (22) is movable between a plurality of different, stable cruise speed positions, in which the cruise control actuator (22) is connected to said controller input actuator (20) in a unidirectional manner to allow a trigger (20) to move the controller input actuator (27) even further in the trigger direction (T) without moving the cruise control actuator (22). The cruise control actuator (22) is also movable to an “OFF” position in which it mechanically blocks the trigger (20) from moving the controller input actuator (27) in the trigger direction (T). Suggested figure for publication.
US11071424B2
Disclosed are a floor brush of a dust collector and a dust collector having same, the floor brush of a dust collector comprising: a main body, the main body defining an air channel therein and being provided with, on a lower surface at the front end thereof, a suction port in communication with the air channel, when the main body covers a surface to be cleaned, an air-tight space being formed between the air channel and the surface to be cleaned, and the front end of the main body being provided with a front air inlet port in communication with the air channel; and a flow guiding portion, the flow guiding portion being provided at the front end of the main body and being provided adjacent to the front air inlet port, and the flow guiding portion being provided with a flow guiding face so that the external air passes through the flow guiding face and the front air inlet port into the air channel.
US11071418B2
Exemplary embodiments of wipes dispensers are disclosed herein. An exemplary wipes dispenser includes a container, a plurality of wipes contained within the container, a fluid for wetting the plurality of wipes and a self-orientating outlet nozzle. The self-orientating outlet nozzle includes a moveable outlet opening. The moveable outlet opening aligns with the direction of pull of the wipe when the wipe is pulled out of the dispenser at an angle that is not substantially vertical.
US11071409B2
A vehicle assembly includes, a traction battery and a heating unit. The heating unit is disposed within a cargo bed of a vehicle and selectively powered by the traction battery. A heating unit powering method includes powering a heating unit within a cargo bed of a vehicle using a traction battery of the vehicle.
US11071400B1
A container system includes a container having a body forming an inner area to hold contents therein, the container having an outer surface that extends from a top surface to a bottom surface; and an attachment device secured to the bottom surface of the container, the attachment device having an elastomeric body configured to engage with a surface of a support structure to secure the attachment device to the surface of the support structure; the attachment device secures the container to the support structure.
US11071398B2
A convertible apparel rack functions as a multi-purpose rack that can display garments, shoes, or a combination of both, by changing out the hanger bars. Further, the rack can be changed from a single rack to a dual rack by removing or inserting uprights on a standard base. The apparel hanger bars are solid and of sufficient strength to allow dense packing of apparel without mechanical failure. The shoe hanger bars have a gap to allow shoes to be clipped on. Further, the convertible apparel rack can display a single rack of items or can be configured to display two racks of items.
US11071391B2
A convertible couch with concealed storage includes an upper seat back, a seat bottom adapted for sliding inwardly for a first mode and sliding outwardly for a second mode, and an articulating seat section between the upper seat back and the seat bottom. The articulating seat section converts between a lower seat back in the first mode and an inner seat bottom in the second mode. The first mode is adapted for seating and the second mode is adapted for lying and reclining. A storage location housing convenience features is located behind the articulating section, such that the storage location and convenience features are concealed in the first mode and accessible in the second mode.
US11071381B2
The invention relates to a fastening fitting for a drawer panel, wherein the panel carries aligned panel mounting parts (2, 2′, 2″) on its rear side and the lateral walls of the drawer carry panel fitting parts (1, 1′) which receive the panel mounting parts (2, 2′, 2″), which panel mounting parts and panel fitting parts can be operatively connected using a fixing means (7, 7′). The panel mounting parts (2, 2′, 2″) have means (4, 4′, 8) for adjusting the inclination of the panel, said means being operatively connected to adjustment bodies (5. 5′) of the panel fitting parts (1, 1′) and pivoting the panel about an axis running perpendicularly to the base side or cover side of the drawer.
US11071368B2
An applicator system comprises a container and an applicator. The container is configured to contain a substance to be applied using the applicator. The container is further configured to support the applicator in an accessible orientation in use. For example, the container can comprise a first chamber that is open at an end thereof. The first chamber can be arranged to receive and locate at least an active end of the applicator therein and to hold the applicator in the accessible orientation in use. The container can also comprise a second chamber that is arranged to receive and hold therein the substance to be contacted by the active end of the applicator in use.
US11071366B2
A razor drying container. The razor drying container includes a housing. The housing is defined by a base and a first sidewall that extends upward from the base. The first sidewall defines a first open end. A first diaphragm is mounted on the first open end. The first diaphragm has a first slot. The first open end defines an interface for the second sidewall. The second sidewall forms a second open end. A second diaphragm is formed on the second open end. The second diaphragm includes a second slot.
US11071363B2
A thin card sized wallet is provided herein that is super-thin, comfortable to wear, and minimally sized to store and transport essential articles. The thin card sized wallet is formed from a single piece of folded material and includes an obverse face, a reverse face, a pouch, a first sleeve, second sleeve, third sleeve, and fourth sleeve. The pouch is situated between the obverse face and reverse face and is configured to receive articles therein. The first sleeve and second sleeve are situated between the obverse face and the reverse face to receive one or more cards therein. The third sleeve and fourth sleeve are situated on the obverse face to receive one or more cards therein. The wallet may further include radiofrequency identification (RFID) shields to protect RFID enabled cards from electronic theft.
US11071359B2
An interchangeable jewelry system or kit can include a jewelry base, one or more charms, and one or more keys. A manufacturer can configure the jewelry base so that a user can wear the jewelry system as a ring, necklace, bracelet, or any other type of jewelry. The jewelry base can include a recessed surround and a post recess. A manufacturer can size the charm to fit within the recessed surround and be configured in a variety of ways to lock into the recessed surround. A manufacturer can configure a key in a variety of ways so that a user can unlock the dot fitting from the recessed surround with the key. Once unlocked, the owner can remove the charm from the recessed surround of the jewelry base and can select an alternative dot fitting with a different design to lock into the recessed surround.
US11071358B2
A clasp for a jewelry system has two arms and a sleeve that can slide to a position covering at least portions of both arms. In this position, the sleeve urges the clasp from an un-locked state towards a locked state.
US11071357B2
A slide fastener includes: a pair of fastener stringers each provided with a fastener element at a bent side-edge portion of a fastener tape; a slider that moves for opening or closing the pair of fastener stringers; and a pair of resin-made terminal members each fixed to the fastener tape adjacently to the fastener element in a terminal portion of the fastener tape in an elongation direction of the fastener tape, the pair of terminal members including a pin and a socket configured to receive the pin. Reinforcing films are attached to both tape surfaces of at least one fastener tape in the terminal portion, and each reinforcing film has an embedded portion embedded in the terminal member.
US11071353B2
A footwear assembly includes an upper, a lace cable, a plurality of lace guides and a tensioner. The tensioner includes a tensioning member secured to a side of the upper proximate a toe box and the lace cable, and a floating overlay attached to a side of the upper proximate a toe box and the lace cable. The tensioning members include an elastic member. The tensioning members can be configured to provide a stiff lockout zone and an elastic stretch zone.
US11071346B2
Examples of the disclosure are directed to a tap apparatus for attachment to a tap shoe. In some examples, the tap apparatus can include an upper tap portion that can be attached to the tap shoe, and a lower tap portion that covers and protects the fasteners used to attach the upper tap portion to the tap shoe. In some examples, the lower tap portion may slide onto the upper tap portion using a dovetail-like attachment mechanism. Screws or locking tabs may then be used to hold the lower tap portion in place. In some examples, the lower tap portion may be affixed to the upper tap portion using a threaded fastener, plug, or floating screw. In some examples, a tab in the upper tap portion can be retained in an aperture in the tap portion, and the lower tap portion can be pivotably engaged with the upper tap portion.
US11071343B2
A cap configured to permit different logos to be interchangeably positioned on the cap. The cap includes a front panel, a back panel and a visor. Further the cap comprises an adjustable strap. The front panel is made out of plastic material with hooks and other panels, such as the back panel and the visor, can also be made out of other materials. The logos are equipped with pile material permits them to be detachably mounted on the cap. A piece of stiffening material is positioned inside of the front panels forming the front face of the cap to maintain the front face in a shape.
US11071342B2
A low profile sock device may include a body for receiving portions of a foot of a user. A first retainer may be configured to tension portions of the body, such as a first side and/or a heel region towards a portion of an upper foot region that the first retainer may be coupled to. A second retainer may be configured to tension portions of the body, such as a second side and/or a heel region towards a portion of the upper foot region that the second retainer may be coupled to. The retainers may be used to tension the body to the foot of a user to increase friction between the body and the foot prevent walking/running motion from pushing the body downward at the back of the foot while allowing the body to remain hidden while being worn with a shoe.
US11071340B2
A protective pant for a wearer, comprising a pelvic portion for overlying a pelvic region of the wearer to provide impact protection to the pelvic region, leg portions for overlying thighs of the wearer to provide impact protection to the thighs, and a zipperless length adjuster configured to adjust a length of the protective pant. Also, a protective pant for a wearer, the protective pant comprising: an inner base for protecting a pelvic region of the wearer; an outer shell; and a zipperless length adjuster comprising a plurality of adjustment elements on the inner base and a plurality of adjustment elements on the outer shell, each of the adjustment elements on the outer shell configured to be attachable to a corresponding one of the adjustment elements of the inner base in at least two positions to permit length-wise adjustment of the outer shell relative to the inner base.
US11071336B2
A mask includes a housing defining (1) an inner layer, an outer layer, and a volume in between, (2) a mouth aperture to be disposed about a mouth of a user, (3) a side aperture to allow fluid flow into and out of the housing, (4) an oral fluid pathway extending from the mouth aperture to the side aperture, and (5) a nasal aperture to be disposed adjacent to nostrils of the user. The mask also includes a nasal channel extending from the nasal aperture and to a nasal exit aperture. The housing is configured to route (1) fluid flow received at the mouth aperture distally through the oral fluid pathway, and (2) fluid flow received at the side aperture proximally through the oral fluid pathway. The nasal channel is configured to route fluid flow received at the nasal aperture distally through the nasal fluid pathway.
US11071333B2
A backpack may include a first panel having a first panel surface facing in a direction and a second panel. The second panel has a second panel first surface and a second panel second surface opposite the second panel first surface. The second panel first surface is inconspicuous. The second panel is pivotable relative to the first panel between (1) a concealment position in which second panel second surface faces the first panel surface and (2) a safety position in which the second panel second surface faces in the. The backpack further includes a safety optic formed on one of the first panel surface and the second panel second surface.
US11071332B2
A swimsuit garment having a shoulder securing means connected to a torso-covering section extending from a bustline to a hemline. The torso-covering section will have an opening mechanism extending from a terminus point on the bustline in a diagonal direction to a starting point on the hemline. The starting point on the hemline is situated on an opposite side of the terminus on the bustline. Further, the torso-covering section is connected to a back-covering section. The opening mechanism may be situated diagonally, with a starting point situated on a wearer's leg cuff on one side of the wearer's body to an ending point on the wearer's bustline on the side of the body opposite to the leg cuff, for example the starting point is on the left leg cuff and the ending point or terminus is on the bustline on the wearer's right-side.
US11071330B2
A maternity garment, or bodysuit, configured to provide support and comfort to a pregnant woman. The garment may include an opening in the front of the garment exposing the stomach, or belly, of a woman. The garment may further include reinforced or compression material that passes underneath the belly providing support to the belly. Additionally, a reinforced back panel may be positioned on the back of the garment to provide additional support to the lower back of a pregnant woman. Straps may extend over the shoulders and cross in the back. Furthermore, a support strap may pass under the breasts as well. The garment may include a seamless one-piece fabric and may be a bikini or thong cut back depending on a woman's preference to provide both comfort and style.
US11071329B2
The method of making the e-vaping cartridge includes cutting at least one first hole through a first channel, sliding a housing over the first channel, the at least one first hole providing fluid communication between a first reservoir and a second reservoir, the first reservoir being defined between the housing and the first channel, where the second reservoir is defined between the first channel and a central passage traversing through the first channel. The method further includes inserting at least one first layer of absorbent material within the second reservoir, and positioning a heater and a wick in communication with the central passage. Distal ends of the wick contact the at least one first layer of absorbent material, where the heater is configured to vaporize a pre-vapor formulation that is communicated by the wick from the at least one first layer of absorbent material.
US11071328B2
An electronic cigarette, including a mouthpiece assembly, an atomization assembly, and a base assembly. The mouthpiece assembly includes a mouthpiece, a decorative cover, a movable cover, a fixed base adapted to fix the mouthpiece, a seal ring adapted to seal the fixed base, a first seal ring and a second seal ring adapted to seal the mouthpiece, and a sliding block. The atomization assembly includes a positioning pin, a limit spring, an upper holder, a gasket, a third seal ring adapted to seal the upper holder, a glass tube, an upper seal ring adapted to seal the glass tube, a lower seal ring adapted to seal the glass tube, a fourth seal ring adapted to seal the lower holder, a lower holder, a connecting thread, a spring, a first cylinder, a fifth seal ring adapted to seal the first cylinder, a second cylinder, and an atomizing core.
US11071325B2
A smoking article is provided, having a component housing including a power source, and a tubular housing having a first end and a longitudinally-opposed second end, wherein the first or second end is configured to receive the component housing. The tubular housing includes an outer wall defining a cylindrical cavity. An aerosol-generating element is configured to be received within the cylindrical cavity, wherein the aerosol-generating element is configured to produce an aerosol in response to heat. An associated aerosol-generating element and related production methods are also provided.
US11071321B2
The present disclosure relates to lockable and unlockable containers for electronic smoking articles, the containers including at least two concentric tubes, a locking mechanism retained therein, and an organizer configured to hold the articles.
US11071320B2
There is provided a smoking article comprising a tobacco rod, a filter and tipping material attaching the tobacco rod and the filter. The filter comprises a plug of filtration material that defines a furthest downstream end of the smoking article, the plug being surrounded by one or more filter wrappers. The tipping material includes a ventilation zone. The tipping material and the filter wrapper or wrappers have a combined thickness (t) perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the smoking article, and the smoking article, at a location about the plug of filtration material, has a diameter (D SA) perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the smoking article. The diameter (D SA) to thickness (t) ratio is less than about 80 and the filtration material extends to the furthest downstream end of the smoking article.
US11071314B2
The present invention relates to a method of thawing and an apparatus for performing the method.
US11071304B2
The invention provides a curing agent comprising a plant-based nitrite derived from plant material comprising nitrate and a process for preparing the curing agent comprising contacting a plant material with an organism capable of converting nitrate to nitrite. The curing agent can be used to preserve or cure meat or meat products.
US11071303B2
Disclosed is an electrical stunning method that is delivered to the head of a slaughter animal. A direct and/or alternating current electric pulse or an electric pulse sequence including two or more direct and/or alternating current pulses is used in the method. Also disclosed is a slaughter method using the stunning method and a design for a device that can be used in the stunning method.
US11071301B2
A method for removing or preventing a microbial growth, biofilm, biomass and/or mineral deposit on a hard surface inside an SO2 scrubber is disclosed. In particular, biocide compositions may be dosed in pulse or continuously for the reduction and prevention of biofilms on the hard surfaces inside an SO2 scrubber. A biocide composition disclosed here uses one or more non-oxidizing biocides, especially a mixture of one or more quaternary ammonium compounds and one or more other biocides.
US11071298B2
A gel-based and sprayable animal attractant composition is provided that comprises at least one synthetic scent. Generally, the gel-based animal attractant composition can be applied through the use of an aerosol spray can and can be formulated to attract specific types of animals, in particular ruminants. More specifically, the animal attractant can comprise a synthetic scent designed to mimic the urine of a doe in estrus.
US11071288B2
An aquacultured shrimp contains carotenoid and does not have a broken 2nd antenna.
US11071279B2
An animal health monitoring system includes a plurality of animal tag assemblies configured for being disposed on members of an animal population, each of the animal tag assemblies including one or more sensors configured to measure one or more animal characteristics of a member of the animal population. The system includes a concentrator communicatively coupled to the plurality of animal tag assemblies and configured to acquire one or more animal characteristics from the plurality of animal tag assemblies. The system includes a controller communicatively coupled to the concentrator and configured to receive the acquired one or more animal characteristics from the plurality of animal tag assemblies from the concentrator, determine a health state of one or more of the members of the animal population based on the received one or more animal characteristics and report the determined health state to one or more user devices.
US11071273B2
A soybean cultivar designated 86172030 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 86172030, to the plants of soybean cultivar 86172030, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 86172030, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 86172030. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 86172030. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 86172030, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 86172030 with another soybean cultivar.
US11071267B2
Described herein are example portable indoor hydroponic garden assemblies and associated methods of use. The portable indoor hydroponic garden assemblies can include features that facilitate hydroponic gardening in an indoor environment, including structural features that enhance the indoor environment itself, such as through sounds, smells, textures, sights, and so on. In an example, the portable indoor hydroponic garden system includes a tiered growing assembly housed fully within an enclosure. The tiered growing assembly can include a group of trays defining tiers that are recessed from one another, allowing water or other fluid to flow from tray to tray, creating waterfall features there between that can aerate the water and emit a pleasurable sound to the indoor environment. The enclosure can be climate controlled and thus adaptable to a variety of indoor conditions to grow desired plants, including embodiments using programmable heating and lighting systems.
US11071263B2
Described herein are several embodiments relating to irrigation controllers. In many implementations, the irrigation controllers includes a housing; a control unit within the housing and comprising a first microcontroller configured to execute stored irrigation programs, wherein the control unit includes an interface connector port; a driver circuitry within the housing configured to actuate irrigation valves based on control signals received from the first microcontroller; and a removable plug-in device removably coupled to the interface connector port, the removable plug-in device comprising a second microcontroller configured to send and receive data communications to and from the first microcontroller, such that the first microcontroller and the second microcontroller function together during use of the irrigation controller, wherein the removable plug-in device does not include any driver circuitry configured to actuate any irrigation valves based on any control signals received from the first microcontroller.
US11071248B1
A mower may have a frame, a floor pan affixed to the frame, and a cutting deck suspended from the floor pan. A height of the cutting deck over a terrain surface may be adjustable with a lift system. The lift system may couple the cutting deck to the floor pan and move the cutting deck between a minimum height and a maximum height.
US11071245B2
An agricultural seeding machine includes a trench closer assembly and a sensing device configured to sense an aspect of the soil without contacting the soil and to output a sensed signal corresponding to the aspect of the soil. A processing device processes the sensed signal to generate a processed sensed signal, and compares a characteristic of the processed sensed signal to a stored signal characteristic representative of a soil condition. A trench closure quality metric is determined and provided via a user interface. Additionally, in response to and based upon the comparison, the processing device may automatically adjust the force applied to the soil by the soil contacting member. In this manner, the seeding machine utilizes a feedback signal to determine how well a trench is closed and can adjust the performance of the trench closer assembly in accordance with that feedback.
US11076516B2
Aspects relate to methods of building Z-graded radiation shielding and covers. In one aspect, the method includes: providing a substrate surface having about medium Z-grade; plasma spraying a first metal having higher Z-grade than the substrate surface; and infusing a polymer layer to form a laminate. In another aspect, the method includes electro/electroless plating a first metal having higher Z-grade than the substrate surface. In other aspects, the invention provides methods of improving an existing electronics enclosure to build a Z-graded radiation shield by applying a temperature controller to at least part of the enclosure and affixing at least one layer of a first metal having higher Z-grade than the enclosure.
US11076510B2
A heat-management device includes an array of recesses distributed across an external surface of a thermally conductive body. The device includes an array of protrusions interspersed with the array of recesses that form a network of cavities within an internal volume of the thermally conductive body. The array of recesses and the array of protrusions define a non-planar interface that is complementary to a curved surface of a heat source. A fluid volume can be retained within the network of cavities at a pressure lower than atmospheric pressure. The heat management device includes a cooling operation mode wherein the fluid volume absorbs heat from the heat source through the non-planar interface and dissipates heat away from the heat source through the network of cavities.
US11076498B1
A fixing device used with an electronic device having a base includes a housing and two pressing elements. The housing includes an accommodating space for accommodating the base. Each pressing element includes a pressing portion and a latch portion. The pressing portions protrude from opposite sides of the housing, and the latch portions protrude from a bottom of the accommodating space. The base includes two positioning structures corresponding to the latch portions. When the electronic device is in the locked state, the base is accommodated in the accommodating space, and the positioning structure and the latch portion are coupled so the electronic device is fixed in the accommodating space. When the electronic device is in the unlocked state, the pressing portions are simultaneously subjected to external opposing forces, and the positioning structure is uncoupled from the latch portion so the electronic device can be disassembled from the accommodating space.
US11076488B2
A board having an electronic component embedded therein, includes a core layer having a groove with a bottom surface, an electronic component disposed above the bottom surface of the groove and spaced apart from the bottom surface of the groove, and an insulating layer disposed on the core layer and covering at least a portion of the electronic component. The insulating layer is disposed in at least a portion of a space between the bottom surface of the groove and the electronic component.
US11076483B2
A direct bonded copper ceramic substrate is provided, which includes a nitride ceramic substrate, a first passivation layer, and a first copper layer. The first passivation layer includes aluminum oxide or silicon oxide doped with another metal. The other metal is titanium, vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, or a combination thereof. The aluminum or silicon and the other metal have a weight ratio of 60:40 to 99.5:0.5. The first passivation layer is disposed between the top surface of the nitride ceramic substrate and the first copper layer.
US11076475B2
An apparatus and a method for generating a non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma are disclosed. In an embodiment, an apparatus for generating a non-thermal atmospheric-pressure plasma includes a first piezoelectric transformer, a second piezoelectric transformer, and a drive circuit configured to apply an input voltage to each of the piezoelectric transformers, and wherein the input voltage applied to the first transformer is phase-shifted by 90° in relation to the input voltage applied to the second transformer.
US11076466B2
A light intensity adjustment circuit includes a delay circuit, a switching circuit and a light-emitting circuit. The delay circuit includes a capacitor and is used to receive a first pulse width modulation signal and generate a delay signal according to the first pulse width modulation signal. The switching circuit includes a switching unit and an isolation circuit. The switching unit includes a control terminal coupled to the delay circuit and used to receive the delay signal, and a first terminal used to generate a current according to the delay signal. The isolation circuit is coupled to the first terminal of the switching unit and generate a second pulse width modulation signal according to the current. The light-emitting circuit is used to receive the second pulse width modulation signal and emit light accordingly.
US11076456B2
An adapting circuit is connected onto the high voltage end output of a magnetron driving power supply. In the adapting circuit, the high frequency part of current in the magnetron anode loop is converted into a part of the filament driving current. The high frequency part is removed by the two primary coils of a ferret core transformer and converted into a larger current on the secondary coil, which is rectified and filtered to increase the driving current in the magnetron filament loop. Two or more power supplies connected with the adapting circuits are connected together in parallel to drive a high power and high filament driving current magnetron with a correct compensation for its filament current.
US11076452B2
The invention relates to a heating module comprising a resistive heating element placed in a frame. The heating module constitutes a ready heating subassembly for heating a gas or a liquid, in particular for heating the air. The heating element is mounted to the frame by means of the at least two contacts arranged at opposite side walls of the heating element, wherein each contact comprises at least two brackets releasably coupled to a side wall, and at least one resilient element connected to the brackets and to at least one catch releasably coupled to the frame, wherein each resilient element, arranged in contact with a side wall of the heat ing element, is tensioned and exerts an expanding force acting on the connection of the contact with the frame and the heating element.
US11076442B2
Provided are a method for a terminal controlling a signaling radio bearer (SRB) in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting same. The method comprises the steps of: establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a first base station and setting a first SRB; setting a second base station and a second SRB, wherein the second SRB is temporarily suspended; and resuming the temporarily suspended second SRB when the quality of a cell in the first base station is worse than a first critical value.
US11076439B2
A wireless device receives, from a base station, first configuration parameters, of a primary cell and a first secondary cell, and second configuration parameters for radio link monitoring. The first secondary cell may be a scheduling cell for the primary cell. Based on the first secondary cell being a scheduling cell for the primary cell, the wireless device may perform radio link monitoring on the first secondary cell using the second configuration parameters. The wireless device may determine a link failure of the first secondary cell based on the radio link monitoring. The wireless device may transmit, to the base station, an indication of the link failure of the first secondary cell.
US11076436B2
A core network element, such as a PCRF and/or an MME, can determine that a Quality of Service (QoS) Class Indicator (QCI) of particular bearer set up between the core network and user equipment (UE) should be changed to a new QCI. When a control node, such as the MME, determines that no teardown delay conditions are met, the control node can send a bearer release message to a base station that instructs the base station to tear down all bearers for the UE, even if they are in use. In a dual connectivity arrangement, such as a E-UTRAN New Radio-Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) configuration, the base station can instruct a secondary base station to also release all bearers for the UE. The control node can instruct the base station to reestablish the particular bearer with the new QCI when the base station reestablishes the bearers for the UE.
US11076435B2
A method of establishing a connection between a remote User Equipment, UE, and a telecommunication network via a relay capable UE, wherein said telecommunication network comprises a core network and an access network, and wherein said connection is established using a Remote Radio Access Bearer between the remote UE, via a relay capable UE, via an access node in the access network, and the core network.
US11076429B2
A method, a user equipment, and a base station are provided for acquiring and transmitting system information. The method is applicable to the user equipment, and includes: a message of random access is transmitted to a base station, where the message of random access includes first request information for requesting system information; first instruction information transmitted by the base station according to the first request information is received, wherein the first instruction information instructs the user equipment to enter a connected state for receiving the system information; a communication connection is established with the base station; and first radio resource control information transmitted by the base station is received, and the system information is extracted from the first radio resource control information.
US11076428B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information from a base station. The UE may determine, based at least in part on the configuration information, a number of subframes available within a random access response (RAR) time window for downlink control channel communications. The UE may modify a random access procedure based on the determined number of subframes available within the RAR time window for the downlink control channel communications. In one example, modifying the random access procedure may include skipping a decoding attempt using a decoding hypothesis. In another example, modifying the random access procedure may include aborting the random access procedure.
US11076427B2
Techniques are described for handling collisions between uplink transmissions and downlink transmissions over a wireless spectrum. Some of the techniques allow a UE to perform a collision management procedure after identifying a transmission collision (e.g., a collision between a downlink transmission with repetition and an uplink transmission, or a collision between a downlink transmission with repetition and a guard frame for an uplink transmission). The collision management procedure allows the UE to refrain from transmitting at least part of an uplink transmission, refrain from decoding at least part of a downlink transmission, or a combination thereof. Other techniques allow a base station to mitigate transmission collisions by scheduling downlink transmissions based on received, inferred, or determined parameters of uplink transmissions.
US11076425B2
System and method of using an AP to individually controlling RTS/CTS duration thresholds for multiple STAs in a WLAN. In response to a STA's association request, the AP determines a duration threshold specific to the STA and encloses this information in an association response for transmission to the STA. By using a broadcast frame, the AP may instruct multiple STAs to uniformly update their stored duration thresholds. For example, if the duration threshold field in the beacon frame is set to 0, the multiple STAs preserve their current duration thresholds; if the field is set to a non-zero value less than 1023, the multiple STAs all update their duration thresholds to the non-zero value; if this field is set to 1023, the multiple STAs disable the RTS/CTS transmissions based on the duration threshold. Based on a current threshold and pertinent policies, an STA can decide whether to initiate an RTS/CTS transmission sequence.
US11076423B2
A method and an access node for communicating in a wireless communication network, the method comprising at an access node obtaining a timing indicator; transmitting to at least one communication device a first frame sequence. The first frame sequence comprises a first portion comprising a first preamble associated with a first communication protocol, a second portion comprising a first polling frame associated with the first communication protocol, and a third portion comprising a second preamble followed by a second polling frame, the second preamble and second polling frame are associated with a second communication protocol. The third portion is multiplexed in the frequency domain with the second portion. The method further comprises providing to the at least one communication device the timing indicator for enabling the access node to control a time of reception of a first portion of a subsequent second frame sequence.
US11076422B2
A random access/responding method and device are provided. In some embodiments, at least two random access preambles can be received before responding to random access of a terminal device, where each of the at least two random access preambles includes at least one sequence. In some embodiments, one random access preamble can be received before responding to random access of a terminal device, where the one random access preamble includes at least two sequences. The sequences in the received random access preambles can be checked. A successfully detected sequence or a random access preamble with the successfully detected sequence can then be responded to. In this way, responding to a plurality of successfully detected random access preambles or a plurality of successfully detected sequences included in one random access preamble is implemented.
US11076420B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a resource scheduling method, an access network device, and user equipment, to reduce a quantity of times of applying for an uplink resource by using a random access process, reduce additional signaling overheads brought to the user equipment, and reduce power consumption of the user equipment. The method part in the embodiments of this application includes: determining, by an access network device, a target time interval in which user equipment monitors a downlink control channel; and sending, by the access network device, uplink resource scheduling information to the user equipment by using the downlink control channel in the target time interval.
US11076409B2
Techniques are described herein for allocating transmit power between precoding resource groups (PRGs) and/or transmit chains of a user equipment (UE) to reduce the amount of total transmit power that is unused. The UE may determine a set of precoding scaling factors for each PRG to efficiently allocate a total transmit power between the PRGs using a two-stage approach. During a first stage, the UE may determine PRG-specific precoding scaling factors for each PRG associated with an uplink transmission. During a second stage, the UE may determine a residual precoding scaling factor to apply to all the PRGs associated with the uplink transmission and determine overall precoding scaling factors for each PRG. The second stage may be configured to refine the scaling factors determined in the first stage such that at least some of the unused transmit power is allocated to at least one of the PRGs or transmit chains.
US11076406B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to receiver beamforming management procedures. According to certain aspects, beams from the set of beams configured at the user equipment (UE) may be not recovered, deleted, removed, and/or merged. A method by a UE includes communicating with a base station using a set of beams. The UE receives signaling, from the base station, indicating one or more beams of the set to be removed from the set and updates the beams in the set based on the signaling.
US11076398B2
A second RAN node (2) associated with a second RAT sends a radio resource configuration of the second RAT to a radio terminal (3) via a first RAN node (1) associated with a first RAT. The radio resource configuration explicitly or implicitly indicates at least one numerology that is included in multiple numerologies supported by the second RAT and is different from a reference numerology. It is thus, for example, possible to allow a radio terminal to be configured with a numerology of a cell served by a secondary gNB or a target gNB in Inter-RAT Dual Connectivity between E-UTRA and NR and in a handover from E-UTRA to NR.
US11076396B2
A wireless device may receive at least one radio resource control (RRC) message comprising a field indicating a starting symbol for an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH). The wireless device may receive an ePDCCH signal. The ePDCCH may start from the starting symbol plus an offset value.
US11076387B2
Method and device for transmitting or receiving control information in wireless communication system
A method by which a terminal transmits uplink control information including acknowledgment information in a wireless communication system supporting a carrier aggregation is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, downlink control information including indication information of a resource for transmitting the acknowledgment information; when the number of bits of the acknowledgment information is larger than the determined number of bits, determining a specific format of an uplink control channel to which the acknowledgment information will be transmitted; and transmitting the acknowledgment information in the uplink control channel of the specific format using the resource having been indicated on the basis of the indication information.
US11076386B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for communicating data packets in a cloud cell. In one embodiment, a network node from which data packets are received is identified by the BS. If the data packets are received from a data gateway, a network node to which the data packets to be sent is identified. If the data packets are to be sent to a slave BS, partial processing is performed on the data packets by the master BS. Furthermore, partially processed data packets are transmitted to the slave BS so that the slave BS performs complete processing on the partially processed data packets and transmits the completely processed data packets to the MS. If the data packets are to be sent to the MS, then complete processing of the data packets is performed by the BS and transmitted to the MS.
US11076382B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for enabling a user equipment to perform a paging operation. The method includes: monitoring whether a paging message is present at a set of PDCCH monitoring occasions included in a paging occasion, detecting whether a base station has accessed to a channel including a frequency band over which the paging message is transmitted at one or more of the PDCCH monitoring occasions, and stopping the monitoring when detecting that the base station has accessed the channel.
US11076377B2
A base station transmits, in a repetitive first sequence of transmission frames of a wireless channel, first positioning reference signals. The base station transmits, in a repetitive second sequence of transmission frames of the wireless channel, second positioning reference signals. The first positioning reference signals and the second positioning reference signals each facilitate determining a time of arrival of signals communicated on the wireless channel.
US11076373B2
Provided are a synchronisation method, a terminal device, a network device and a storage medium, capable of ensuring synchronisation between a terminal and a satellite system via D2D means. In the method, a network device determines that a first terminal cannot synchronise with a satellite system; the network device instructs a second terminal to send a satellite system-based synchronisation signal, used for the first terminal to synchronise with the satellite system via the synchronisation signal. In a possible implementation, the method may include that: the network equipment receives a first message sent by the first terminal, the first message indicating that the first terminal is not able to be synchronized with the satellite system and the first message including information configured to acquire the present position of the first terminal.
US11076369B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for power control and user multiplexing for coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission and reception in heterogeneous networks (HetNet).
US11076358B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may identify one or more first user equipments (UEs) that have been configured for grant-free transmissions on an allocation of resources. In some cases, the base station may then schedule an uplink transmission for a second UE on resources that overlap the allocation of resources. Accordingly, the base station may transmit a power adjustment indication (PAI) to the one or more first UEs to adjust a transmit power for uplink transmissions on the overlapping resources. In some cases, the PAI may include an indication of frequency-domain resources for the power adjustment indicated in the PAI, a specified time duration for the power adjustment indicated in the PAI, an indication of specific uplink transmissions to which the transmit power adjustment is to be applied, or a combination thereof.
US11076354B2
A terminal device may determine that no data service has been received within a preset-duration. The terminal device further determines that a radio resource control (RRC) connection is not released when no data service is received within the preset duration. The terminal device performs a handover from the first cell to the second cell upon determining that the RRC connection is not released.
US11076353B2
Exemplary embodiments disclosed herein provide procedures for power efficient and rapid access point (AP) discovery using wake up radios. Additional embodiments provide procedures for securely waking up stations (STAs) using wake up radios (WURs). Methods are further described herein for coverage range detection and STA roaming for wake up radios. Further embodiments relate to procedures for coexistence for wake up radios and primary connectivity radios.
US11076349B2
A message transmitting/receiving apparatus and method and a communication system. The message transmitting method includes: determining a message type of a message to be transmitted to one or more user equipments; scrambling control information of the message by using an identity to which the message type corresponds; wherein, different identities correspond to different message types; and transmitting data information of the message and the scrambled control information to the one or more user equipments. Hence, the user equipment may not proceed with processing a message that is not preferred, thereby lowering power consumption of the user equipment.
US11076348B2
Methods and apparatuses for neighbor discovery and wireless inter-connection in a wireless communication system. A method for operating a base station (BS) in the wireless communication network includes generating measurement information regarding neighboring BSs of the BS in the wireless communication network; determining a first parent BS of the neighboring BSs to connect to based on the measurement information; performing an initial access procedure with the first parent BS to connect to the first parent BS; identifying an end-to-end route for the BS for transfer of data between a user equipment (UE) and a gateway via the wireless communication network; and transferring the data between the gateway and the UE based on the identified end-to-end route.
US11076345B2
A radio terminal (1) is configured in such a way that, when the radio terminal (1) receives a downlink signalling message including an information element (641) indicating that a first UL control channel (622) is to be configured in a first secondary cell (SCell) (602) that has already been added as an SCell in a carrier aggregation, where the first UL control channel (622) is to be used to transmit uplink (UL) control information for at least one SCell (602, 603) including the first SCell (602), the radio terminal (1) deactivates one or more SCells (602, 603) in an activated state among the at least one SCell (602, 603).
US11076343B2
A signal transmission method, a terminal and a network-side device. A first network-side device sends access configuration (AC) indication information to a terminal, the AC indication information being used for indicating to the terminal the currently available AC in an access configuration set (ACS). The terminal receives the access configuration set (ACS) and the access configuration (AC) indication information sent by the network-side device, and determines, according to the AC indication information, the currently available AC in the ACS.
US11076342B1
Technologies are described for restricting access within a cellular telecommunications environment. For example, the technologies described herein can be used to allow cellular devices to connect to cellular networks even when the cellular networks are disallowed. However, the connections to cellular networks that are disallowed can be handled differently from connections to cellular networks that are allowed. For example, when a cellular device is allowed to connect to a disallowed cellular network, the connection can be directed to a particular packet data network gateway (PGW), such as a blocked PGW.
US11076337B2
Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing combined broadband and wireless self-organizing network (“SON”) for provisioning of services. In some embodiments, a computing system might receive, from one or more first sensors and one or more second sensors, first operational states of fixed broadband network nodes and second operational states of wireless network nodes, respectively. The computing system might analyze the received first and second operational states, might determine an optimal network pathway and/or an optimal network backhaul pathway, and might establish the optimal network pathway and/or the optimal network backhaul pathway, through a determined combination of fixed and wireless network nodes, thereby implementing the combined broadband and wireless self-organizing network (“SON”) for provisioning of services.
US11076335B2
An apparatus and method for communicating via a routing protocol in a wireless network having directional transmission capabilities. Reliable peer stations are identified using Beamforming (BF) training feedback metrics. Routing discovery messages are transmitted by unicast to reliable peer stations, with neighborhood discovery lists disseminated among peer stations in a unicast mode. From the above information, routing tables are constructed with best routing between a source and a destination station, wherein messages can be routed using said routing table from a source peer station, through intermediate peer stations, to a destination peer station. In addition, other embodiments are described, including a simplified two-hop routing apparatus and method.
US11076331B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for inter-RAT resource switching based on power consumption using communications systems operating according to, for example, new radio (NR) technologies. For example, a method may generally include signaling at least one power consumption metric of the UE for communicating in at least first and second radio access technologies (RAT) resources, and taking action to switch to communicate via the first RAT resource, the second RAT resource, or both, based on the at least one power consumption metric.
US11076330B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to establish a connection with a core network through a base station configured with mixed core network deployment, wherein the base station is communicatively coupled to each of a LTE core network (CN) such as an evolved packet core (EPC) and a 5G CN. The UE determines a preference for establishing a connection with one of the EPC or the 5G CN based on one or more of a device type of the UE, an active data flow running on the UE, an availability of network slices or packet data unit (PDU) sessions through each core network, or historical network performance of a particular CN. The UE transmits a message to the base station indicating the determined preference. The UE subsequently receives a response from the base station establishing a connection with the indicated preferred core network.
US11076328B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method in a wireless communication system and a computer readable storage medium, the apparatus comprising a processing circuit, and the processing circuit being configured to: configure a measurement cell range of a user device to include adjacent cells of the current serving cell of the user device and cells other than the adjacent cells; and notify the user device of the measurement cell range, such that the user device implements measurement for the measurement cell range. According to at least one aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, expanding the measurement cell range for an unmanned aerial vehicle to include cells other than adjacent cells can prevent the occurrence of frequent handover.
US11076326B2
Methods and apparatuses for performing communication on an unlicensed band. A method, performed by a UE, of performing the communication on the unlicensed band, according to an embodiment, includes receiving SI (system information) scheduling information from a base station, identifying at least one of a primary SI window number or a secondary SI window number for a SI message based on the SI scheduling information, monitoring at least one window corresponding to the primary SI window number, and in response to the SI message being not received, monitoring at least one window corresponding to the secondary SI window number.
US11076325B2
Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to selectively perform neighbor base station measurement. The UE may receive a neighbor base station list from the serving base station. The UE may categorize the neighbor base stations of the neighbor base station list into one of a plurality of measurement categories. The UE may be configured to perform measurements of neighbor base stations in respective categories at different rates.
US11076324B2
The described technology is generally directed towards having a wireless network device assist a user equipment to facilitate narrow beam handover. A network device determines narrow beam handover candidates of neighbor cell sites based on geometric relationships between the user equipment, a serving cell site and the neighbor cell site candidates. Historical information such as previous narrow beam handovers from a serving beam to neighbor narrow beams can be used to select a lesser number of the possible candidate beams. The network device sends the candidate beams to the user equipment, which then measures and reports the measurements to the network device. If handover criteria based on the measurement is met, the network device orders a handover to a selected narrow beam, e.g., the narrow beam with the best measurement data of the candidates.
US11076319B2
In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform determining, by a network node of a communication network, for assignment to at least one network device more than one resource configuration comprising a resource configuration for a contention based resource and a further resource configuration for a dedicated resource, wherein the further resource configuration is reserved as a fall back for a case where a data communication using the contention based resource is not successfully decoded by the network node; and communicating between the network node and the at least one network device information comprising the more than one resource configuration for use to communicate the data communication.
US11076316B2
This application provides a wireless communication method and device. The method includes: scrambling, with each piece of configuration information of a plurality of pieces of configuration information for configuring a terminal device, bits that are included in a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of downlink control information (DCI) and that correspond to each piece of configuration information, to obtain a scrambled sequence, where at least one bit of bits that correspond to each piece of configuration information does not correspond to another piece of configuration information of the plurality of pieces of configuration information; and sending the DCI and the scrambled sequence to the terminal device.
US11076310B2
The present invention is designed to adequately perform communication in accordance with measurement operation even when beam forming is applied. A user terminal according to the present invention has a receiving section that receives a DL measurement transmitted from one or a plurality of antenna ports, a measurement section that performs cell level measurement and/or beam level measurement using the DL measurement signal, and a control section that controls reporting of the measurement result of cell level measurement and/or beam level measurement, wherein the control section controls random access using resources configured in accordance with a reporting target of the measurement result.
US11076307B2
A method of adjusting a communication link of a client device of a wireless local area network is described. The method includes monitoring two or more communication links between two or more client devices and a network device in a wireless local area network. The two or more client devices including a first client device and a second client device. The method also includes detecting a degradation in a first communication link between the first client device and the network device. The communication link degradation is not detected in a second communication link between the second client device and the network device. The method further includes determining the degradation in the first communication link is caused at least in part by interference from cellular network communications. The method includes adjusting one or more parameters of the first communication link without affecting the second communication link in response to determining the degradation is cause at least in part by the interference from the cellular network communications.
US11076303B2
An antenna alignment tool may include a housing to be temporarily mounted to an antenna during alignment. The antenna alignment tool may also include a processor carried by the housing and configured to determine actual position data, actual azimuth data, and actual tilt data for the antenna. The processor may also be configured to generate an earth browser file for displaying on an earth browser a representative antenna pointing directional indicator based upon the actual position data, actual azimuth data, and actual tilt data for the antenna.
US11076302B2
According to certain embodiments, a method in a wireless device includes determining a current coverage enhancement, CE, mode of the wireless device with respect to a first cell and determining an estimated signal quality of the wireless device with respect to the first cell. If the current CE mode is a normal CE mode and the estimated signal quality of the wireless device with respect to the first cell is greater than or equal to an upper threshold, the wireless devices continues to operate in the normal CE mode. If the current CE mode is an enhanced CE mode and the estimated signal quality of the wireless device with respect to the first cell is greater than or equal to a lower threshold and less than the upper threshold, the wireless device continues to operate in the enhanced CE mode. If the current CE mode is the normal CE mode and the estimated signal quality of the wireless device with respect to the first cell is greater than or equal to the lower threshold and less than the upper threshold, the wireless device is reconfigured to operate in the enhanced CE mode. If the current CE mode is the enhanced CE mode and the estimated signal quality of the wireless device with respect to the first cell is greater than or equal to the upper threshold, the wireless device continues to operate in the enhanced CE mode.
US11076301B1
An Ethernet network access device includes a wired Ethernet network port and a wireless network module. The wired Ethernet network port facilitates a wired network connection to a network via a wired network line. The wireless network module includes a wireless transceiver to selectively establish a wireless connection to the network, and a wireless network repeater to selectively provide wireless access to the network for other devices when the wired network connection is established.
US11076297B2
There is described a method of managing network slices in a communications network. The method comprises a domain manager of a Radio Access Network (RAN) determining a change in cell composition of the RAN, and determining neighbor cells within the RAN affected by the change in cell composition of the RAN. The method also compromises the domain manager determining a set of RAN resource partitions affected by the change in cell composition of the RAN, and adapting the configuration of RAN resource partitions of the set of RAN resource partitions by introducing changes corresponding to the change in cell composition of the RAN.
US11076291B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, operations related to emulated mobile device determinations may include obtaining sensor data associated with an entity. The sensor data may include sensor output values associated with one or more sensors of a physical mobile device. The operations may also include analyzing the obtained sensor data. The analyzing may include performing one or more determinations. The determinations may include determining whether the obtained sensor data includes static data. The determinations may also include determining whether the obtained sensor data includes computer-simulated data. In addition, the determinations may include determining whether the obtained sensor data includes reused sensor data. In some embodiments, the operations may include determining whether the obtained sensor data includes emulated sensor data based on one or more of the determinations.
US11076287B2
Methods and apparatus for processing data packets originated from a mobile computing device to destinations at a wireless network node. The wireless network node receives an access request from the mobile computing device for the data packet transmission to the destinations and determines an identifier of the mobile computing device. The wireless network node then determines whether the identifier is in a wireless network node database. When the identifier is not in the wireless network node database, the wireless network node suspends to process data packets received from the mobile computing device and communicates with a server to determine whether status of the mobile computing device in a server database is the first state.
US11076282B2
A telecommunications apparatus is provided which comprises a processing system, a cellular-network radio transceiver, a first radio module and a smart card. The smart card comprises a microcontroller, an electrical interface and a second radio module. The cellular-network radio transceiver and the first radio module are connected to the processing system by one or more electrical connections. The smart card is coupled to the cellular-network radio transceiver through the electrical interface and the processing system is arranged to use a radio communication link between the first radio module and the second radio module to communicate data with the microcontroller of the smart card. The smart card is configured to interrupt the processing system by sending data over the radio communication link.
US11076276B1
This disclosure presents systems and methods to provide wireless communication between computing platforms and wearable articles. Exemplary implementations may: obtain wireless communication signals from a first wearable article and detect presence of the first wearable article; obtain wireless communication signals from the first wearable article conveying article information identifying the first wearable article and/or a user; identify customizable attributes of one or more application programs; determine custom-defined values for the customizable attributes; effectuate the custom-defined values for the customizable attributes of one or more application programs such that the one or more application programs reflect the custom-defined values; and/or perform other operations.
US11076268B2
Methods and systems are described wherein an initiating device sends a communication requesting a voice call session with a recipient device. In response, the initiating device receives a communication indicating that the initiating device can provide a text message instead of establishing the voice call session. In some cases, the communication may refuse the request voice call session, while in other cases the communication may simply indicate that the recipient device supports text messaging as an alternative to voice mail. As a result of the received communication, the initiating device outputs a text input prompt. After receiving text input in response to the prompt, the initiating device sends a text message containing the received text input.
US11076259B1
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) can transmit a device-to-device (D2D) communication. The D2D communication can include an application layer message and the application layer message includes one or more data elements related to a geo-fence for the UE.
US11076255B2
A method improves performance of a computer that provides binaural sound to a listener. A memory stores coordinate locations that follow a path of how the head of the listener moves. This path is retrieved in anticipation of subsequent head movements of the listener to improve computer performance of executing binaural sound.
US11076254B2
An audio processing apparatus includes a sensor configured to output a detection signal in accordance with an orientation of the sensor; a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor that implements the instructions to: sequentially generate, based on the detection signal, orientation information pieces each indicative of the orientation of the sensor; correct a current orientation information piece based on an average of a first plurality of orientation information pieces, among the sequentially generated orientation information pieces, and generate a corrected current orientation information piece; determine a head-related-transfer function in accordance with the corrected current orientation information piece; and apply a sound-image-localization processing to an audio signal based on the determined head-related-transfer function.
US11076251B2
In one example, a video endpoint obtains, from a vertical microphone array, a first audio signal including audio from a target sound source and audio from a horizontally-displaced sound source. The video endpoint obtains, from a horizontal microphone array, a second audio signal and a third audio signal both including the audio from the target sound source and the audio from the horizontally-displaced sound source. Based on the second audio signal and the third audio signal, the video endpoint determines at least one of a first degree of arrival of the audio from the target sound source or a second degree of arrival of the audio from the horizontally-displaced sound source. Based on the at least one of the first degree of arrival or the second degree of arrival, the video endpoint adjusts a gain of the first audio signal.
US11076235B2
The present disclosure provides a speaker assembly. The speaker assembly includes: a frame, a magnetic circuit system, a vibration system, and a flexible circuit board. The flexible circuit board includes a first mounting portion, a second mounting portion spaced from the first mounting portion for being fixed to the frame, and a pair of elastic arms. Each elastic arm includes a first fixing end connected to the first mounting portion, a first connecting arm extending from the first fixing portion, a second fixing end connected to the second mounting portion, a second connecting arm extending from the second fixing end, and a connecting portion connecting the first connecting arm to the second connecting arm. The two connecting portions of the two elastic arms are connected with each other at the corresponding portions.
US11076225B2
Microphones are located between pixel display elements (e.g., micro-LEDs and OLEDs) in a display. Display-integrated microphones allow displays to have thinner bezels. Audio processing components can also be incorporated into the display and allow audio processing offloading from processors external to the display. Arrays of microphones allow for the beamforming of received audio signals to enhance the detection of sound from remote audio sources. Piezoelectric elements can also be integrated into a display to allow for localized haptic feedback. Integrated piezoelectric elements can act as speakers and beamforming techniques can be used to activate sets of piezoelectric elements in coordination to direct sound to a specific location external to the display. Piezoelectric elements can aid in display thermal management by creating acoustic waves to move heated air within a display to create a more uniform thermal profile within the display or to remove excess heat from the display.
US11076223B2
A speaker device in an embodiment includes a panel and an actuator. The actuator is provided on the panel. The actuator includes a diaphragm, a piezoelectric element, and a vibration transmission portion. The piezoelectric element is provided on at least one of principal surfaces of the diaphragm. The vibration transmission portion is provided on the diaphragm and abuts the panel without making contact with the piezoelectric element.
US11076222B2
An electro-acoustic transducer includes: a housing; a fixed electrode; a diaphragm that oscillates in accordance with a potential difference between the diaphragm and the fixed electrode generated based on the electric signal, the diaphragm being provided to face the fixed electrode; and a support part that supports the partial region of the diaphragm toward the fixed electrode, the support part including a displacement part that is displaced in a direction in which the diaphragm is displaced in response to a change in pressure inside the housing, and a contacting part contacts the partial region of the diaphragm, wherein a distance between the diaphragm and the fixed electrode in the partial region is less than a distance between the diaphragm and the fixed electrode outside the partial region.
US11076217B2
A portable device includes a microphone structure for converting a received audio signal into an electronic signal representing the received audio signal and for transceiving an ultrasonic wave by transmitting the ultrasonic wave and by receiving a reflection of the ultrasonic wave. The portable device includes a control unit for evaluating the reflection of the ultrasonic wave to obtain an evaluation result and for controlling an operation of the portable device based on the evaluation result.
US11076209B2
A reduced-complexity optical packet switch which can provide a deterministic guaranteed rate of service to individual traffic flows is described. The switch contains N input ports, M output ports and N*M Virtual Output Queues (VOQs). Packets are associated with a flow f, which arrive an input port and depart on an output port, according to a predetermined routing for the flow. These packets are buffered in a VOQ. The switch can be configured to store several deterministic periodic schedules, which can be managed by an SDN control-plane. A scheduling frame is defined as a set of F consecutive time-slots, where data can be transmitted over connections between input ports and output ports in each time-slot. Each input port can be assigned a first deterministic periodic transmission schedule, which determines which VOQ is selected to transmit, for every time-slot in the scheduling frame. Each input port can be assigned a second deterministic periodic schedule, which determines which traffic flow within a VOQ is selected to transmit. Each input port can be assigned a third deterministic periodic schedule, which specifies to which VOQ an arriving packet (if any) is destined, for each time-slot in a scheduling frame. Each input port can be assigned a fourth deterministic periodic schedule, which specifies to which Flow-VOQ within a VOQ an arriving packet (if any) is destined. In this manner, each traffic flow can receive a deterministic guaranteed-rate of transmission through the switch.
US11076208B2
Methods and systems for generating segmented media asset identifiers are described herein. The method includes retrieving a first media guidance data segment of a plurality of media guidance data segments. Each segment of the plurality of media guidance data segments includes a plurality of media asset identifiers and is navigationally linked to at least one other media guidance data segment. The method further involves generating for display the media asset identifiers of the first media guidance data segment. While generating for display the media asset identifiers of the first media guidance data segment, a first user input corresponding to navigating to the media asset identifiers of a linked media guidance data segment is received. In response to receiving the first user input, the linked media guidance data segment is retrieved, and the media asset identifiers of the linked media guidance data segment are generated for display.
US11076206B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for manufacturing a viewer-relation type video and, more particularly, to an apparatus and a method for manufacturing a viewer relation-type video which can compose received videos according to a relationship with a viewer and provide the composed videos to the viewer.
US11076198B2
The present invention provides a method for real-time generation and streaming of at least one interactive context based video according to video template, raw context related data and real time event data. The method comprising the steps of: receiving input data related to an identified template and context related data, receiving real time input of event data, while the subsequent portion of video is still in generation, choosing, updating and generating audible and visual materials, according to the predefined logic of the identified template in relation to real time data event, generating and encoding video frames for pre-defined portion based polling the generated/updated visual materials, generating continuous audio streams/frames for predefined portion of the video based on polling generated or updated audible materials and providing the generated streamable data of the predefined video portion at the external entity side, while the subsequent portion of video is still in generation.
US11076188B1
During download of a first video segment, a buffer empty condition may be detected that interrupts playing of the first video segment. A remaining data size may be determined corresponding to a remaining portion of the first video segment that has not been downloaded when the buffer empty condition occurs. A total data size may be determined corresponding to a second video segment in its entirety, and it may be determined that the remaining data size exceeds the total data size. The download of the first video segment may then be canceled, and the second video segment may be downloaded. A start of a replacement portion of the second video segment may be identified that corresponds to a start of the remaining portion of the first video segment. Playing of the second video segment may be initiated from the start of the replacement portion of the second video segment.
US11076185B2
Systems and associated methods are described for providing content recommendations. The system selects a first plurality of subsets of content categories, each subset of content categories comprising a first number of content categories. The subsets are assigned reward scores based on content popularity and duplication. The subset are then iteratively modified to increase the rewards scores. If the reward scores are still low, the process is repeated by selecting a second plurality of subsets of content categories, each subset of content categories comprising a second number of content categories, different from first number.
US11076179B2
Systems, methods, and processor-readable media are provided for content distribution for a multi-channel content distribution system. A content item may be received by a video handling system. The content item may include video data, the content item corresponding to media for delivery to a television receivers via channel components. A metric of the content item may be detected as a function of time. Viewership data received from data sources may be processed, the viewership data indicative of one or more characteristics of viewers. The viewership data may be mapped to the content item. The content item may be qualified based on the viewership data to yield a qualification result for the content item. An encoding parameter to encode the content item may be determined based on the metric and the qualification result. Encoding of the content item may be specified in accordance with the encoding parameter.
US11076170B2
A moving picture decoding apparatus, method, and medium for decoding a current block of a picture are provided. A motion vector candidate list is generated that includes motion vector candidates and, for each of the motion vector candidates, a value. The motion vector candidates include a first candidate and a second candidate. The second candidate is arranged before the first candidate in the motion vector candidate list. The first candidate is sorted before the second candidate in the motion vector candidate list based on the value of the first candidate and the value of the second candidate. The value of the first candidate is higher than the value of the second candidate. For each of the motion vector candidates, the value is based on a number of times the motion vector candidate is selected as a motion vector predictor for neighboring blocks.
US11076157B1
A hardware encoder has a block analyzer configured in hardware to selectively alter encoding parameters of a coding unit or a coding tree unit in response to encoder conditions and an analysis of the coding unit or coding tree unit. A stream analyzer operating as a software process on one or more computational cores selectively alters encoding parameters in response to evaluation of parameters associated with a stream of video data.
US11076152B2
A technique to parameterize the quantization scheme of the attribute coding of point cloud compression algorithms is described herein. Based on fixed-point arithmetic, the algorithm calculates the quantization step size (QS) in fixed-point notation, given a user-input quantization parameter (QP).
US11076148B2
In a solid-state image sensor in which an arbiter arbitrates a request, a failure point is identified. A plurality of pixels generates a request for requesting transmission of a predetermined detection signal, in a case where a predetermined event is detected. A test circuit outputs the request of each of the plurality of pixels as an output request in a case where a test is not instructed, and generates a plurality of new requests and outputs each as the output request in a case where the test is instructed. The arbiter arbitrates the output request. A communication circuit transmits the detection signal on the basis of an arbitration result of the arbiter. A failure determination unit determines whether or not the arbiter has a failure on the basis of the detection signal in a case where the test is instructed.
US11076137B1
A projection management system is described. The projection management system may be configured to instruct an image projection device to project an image on a background. Sensor information and/or image information may be received that indicates an obstruction between the image projection device and the background. The projection management system may instruct the image projection device to project a modified image based on the obstruction.
US11076135B2
A host system may initiate a multiple node exchange of selected values to generate a random selection. The structure of the exchange may allow later verification that no single node had control of the generation of the random selection. Accordingly, the random selection may be unknown prior to the exchange. The host system may then provide the random selection to the device for integration of the random selection during the capture of video. The video may be recorded to a blockchain. Because of the integration with the random selection, the video may be date verifiable, such that the video can be verified to be created after the random selection and before recordation to the blockchain.
US11076131B2
A video collection system includes: a plurality of terminals; and a video collection server that requests at least one of the plurality of terminals to perform information provision. The video collection server includes a calculation part, a determination part, and a request part. The calculation part calculates, based on information acquired from a camera(s), a first area(s) imaged by the camera(s). The determination part determines a second area(s) as an information provision target(s) based on a location(s) of the first area(s). The request part selects, based on respective locations of the plurality of terminals and a location(s) of the second area(s), a terminal(s) to be requested to perform the information provision from the plurality of terminals and requests the selected terminal(s) to provide video data of the second area(s).
US11076129B2
An entry device includes an entry port, a filter connected to the entry port, a plurality of first output ports, and a plurality of second output ports. A first path extends from the entry port, through the filter, to the first output ports. The first path is configured to pass cable television (CATV) signals therethrough and to prevent at least a portion of multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) signals from passing therethrough. A second path extends from the entry port, through the filter, to the second output ports. The second path is configured to prevent at least a portion of the CATV signals and at least a portion of the MoCA signals from passing therethrough. A third path extends from the first output ports, through the filter, to the second output ports. The third path is configured to pass the MoCA signals therethrough and to prevent at least a portion of the CATV signals from passing therethrough.
US11076125B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes a first display unit, a second display unit that displays an image acquired from a space on a communication partner side, and a control unit that performs a display control of the first display unit and the second display unit, and control to display, on at least one of the first display unit or the second display unit, a shared object whose display at least extends to a work area on the communication partner side.
US11076115B2
To improve accuracy of distance measurement using a Z pixel having the same size as size of a visible light pixel. In a solid-state imaging apparatus, a visible light converting block includes a plurality of visible light converting units in which light receiving faces for receiving visible light are disposed and configured to generate electric charges in accordance with a light receiving amount of the received visible light, and a visible light electric charge holding unit configured to exclusively hold the electric charges respectively generated by the plurality of visible light converting units in periods different from each other. An infrared light converting block includes a plurality of infrared light converting units in which light receiving faces which have substantially the same size as size of the light receiving faces of the visible light converting units and which receive infrared light are disposed and configured to generate electric charges in accordance with a light receiving amount of the received infrared light, and an infrared light electric charge holding unit configured to collectively and simultaneously hold the electric charges respectively generated by the plurality of infrared light converting units.
US11076114B2
A dynamic vision sensor (DVS) or change detection sensor reacts to changes in light intensity and in this way monitors how a scene changes. This disclosure covers both single pixel and array architectures. The DVS may contain one pixel or 2-dimensional or 1-dimensional array of pixels. The change of intensities registered by pixels are compared, and pixel addresses where the change is positive or negative are recorded and processed. Analyzing frames based on just three values for pixels, increase, decrease or unchanged, the proposed DVS can process visual information much faster than traditional computer vision systems, which correlate multi-bit color or gray level pixel values between successive frames.
US11076112B2
In one aspect, a headset includes a housing, a processor coupled to the housing, a first display coupled to the housing and accessible to the processor, and storage coupled to the housing and accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to identify a closed captioning setting, receive closed captioning data indicating closed captioning text at the headset, and present the closed captioning text in accordance with the closed captioning setting on the first display of the headset using augmented reality processing.
US11076102B2
Systems and methods to improve safety and more efficient Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle (AV) systems for vehicular operation through the application of multiple thermal sensors arranged in systems where the resolution, Field Of View (FOV), and aiming angle of individual sensors are varied. In particular two configurations are discussed in detail, a three-sensor arrangement for forward and forward off angle data acquisition, and a two or three sensor arrangement for blind spot and pinch point awareness for towing applications. In some forward-looking three-sensor embodiments, the center sensor may provide a high-quality narrow field of view of radiometric data for use with tracking algorithms to identify pedestrian and large animal targets for long range driver identification. The side sensors may provide radiometric data for peripheral vision on short/medium range approaching targets for situational awareness at crosswalks and turning corners.
US11076099B1
An apparatus comprises a camera and one or more sensors. The camera generally has a low power deactivated mode. The one or more sensors are generally remotely located with respect to the camera. The one or more sensors may be configured to communicate a signal to the camera in response to a trigger condition. The camera is generally configured to activate in response to receiving the signal from the one or more sensors.
US11076094B2
In an image capturing unit 20, an imaging element has a 4×4-pixel area in which: pixels including at least one pixel of every color component of a plurality of color components are polarization pixels of the same polarization direction; and pixels which are not the polarization pixels constitute a majority of the 4×4-pixel area, and are non-polarization pixels. The unpolarized component calculating unit 31 of the image processing unit 30 calculates unpolarized components for each pixel and for each color component by using pixel signals of polarization pixels, and pixel signals of non-polarization pixels that are generated at the image capturing unit 20. The diffuse reflection component calculating unit 32 calculates diffuse reflection components for each pixel and for each color component by using pixel signals of polarization pixels, and pixel signals of non-polarization pixels that are generated at the image capturing unit 20.
US11076089B2
A method of processing information of a portable device includes displaying a preview image output from a camera when a camera application is executed; displaying communication applications corresponding to recognition information of a selected image in the displayed preview image; executing a selected communication application among the displayed communication applications; and transmitting a content/file through the communication application.
US11076086B2
An electronic device communicates with a lens unit whose focus range is a first range between a first position and a second position of a focus lens. The electronic device obtains first information indicating a third position of the focus lens, at which the focus distance of the lens unit infinity, and a second range between the third position and the second position of the focus lens. The electronic device controls, on the basis of the first information, a display unit to display the first range and the second range of the focus lens to be distinguishable from each other.
US11076080B2
A method for eye tracking is disclosed. The method may include receiving a first image captured by a first camera based at least in part on reflections of light emitted by a light source. The reflections may be partially occluded by an electronic display disposed in front of the first camera. The method may further include detecting an eye of a user in the partially occluded first image and determining a position or orientation of the eye relative to the electronic display.
US11076078B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a method for manufacturing the same, and an electronic apparatus capable of improving sensitivity while suppressing degradation of color mixture. The solid-state imaging device includes an anti-reflection portion having a moth-eye structure provided on a boundary surface on a light-receiving surface side of a photoelectric conversion region of each pixel arranged two-dimensionally, and an inter-pixel light-blocking portion provided below the boundary surface of the anti-reflection portion to block incident light. In addition, the photoelectric conversion region is a semiconductor region, and the inter-pixel light-blocking portion has a trench structure obtained by digging the semiconductor region in a depth direction at a pixel boundary. The techniques according to the present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device of a rear surface irradiation type.
US11076060B2
A system and method for maintaining and optimizing a fleet of multifunction peripherals is operated by use of a smartphone. The smartphone provides recommendations to configure multifunction peripherals or other equipment fleets to avoid service calls. The smartphone is configured to allow a user to review device status for a fleet of multifunction peripherals so that the user knows which multifunction peripherals will need attention. The system provides the user with alerts of issues, with predictions before issues occur, and with a prescription for what to do so that the user can resolve the issue themselves. The system further provides recommendations based on needs, usage, and other customer usage or purchase data to allow the user to review multifunction peripherals, purchase services, install options and configure devices in the fleet for optimization.
US11076059B2
A data transmission apparatus that transmits data and receive at least a destination of the data from an external apparatus includes a reader that reads an image of an original, a network interface that transmits image data of the read image, a display that displays a setting screen including a display field for at least the destination of the data, a receiver that receives the destination data displayed in the display field from the external apparatus, and a controller that performs control such that the display is turned on based on receipt of the destination and that the setting screen where the destination is input in the display field is displayed.
US11076056B2
In a communication system (Sy), mail information is transmitted from a portable terminal device (20) to an image forming apparatus (10) through short distance communication. In the image forming apparatus (10), the mail information is received at a first near field radio communication section (16) and stored into a first storage section (19), a destination address, a title, and a text are displayed on a screen of a first display section (12) based on the mail information, an e-mail is created by use of the destination address, the title, and the text on the screen selected through operation of a first operation section (14), image data is transmitted from a first network communication section (15) with the created e-mail, and then the mail information is erased from the first storage section (19).
US11076055B2
An information processing apparatus that is capable of resuming an interrupted process without applying the time and effort more than needed to a user. A data transmission unit transmits execution data to a process execution apparatus. A detection unit detects an abnormal state of the information processing apparatus. A reboot unit reboots the information processing apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains an execution condition of the execution data by the process execution apparatus. The reboot unit reboots the information processing apparatus when the detection unit detects the abnormal state of the information processing apparatus. The transmission unit transmits the execution data to the process execution apparatus based on the execution condition obtained by the obtaining unit when the information processing apparatus was rebooted.
US11076042B2
A favorite-object display method and electronic device are provided to manage favorite objects in different applications, and after an input operation performed by a user on a favorite object is received, display, in an original application, content corresponding to the favorite object. A favorites management interface is provided, where a first favorite object and a second favorite object are displayed, receiving an operation entered by a user. When the operation points to the first favorite object, responding to the operation to display, in a first application, content corresponding to the first favorite object; or if the operation points to the second favorite object, responding to the operation to display, in a second application, content corresponding to the second favorite object.
US11076039B2
Systems and processes for accelerating task performance are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device including a display and one or more input devices, displaying, on the display, a user interface including a suggestion affordance associated with a task, detecting, via the one or more input devices, a first user input corresponding to a selection of the suggestion affordance, in response to detecting the first user input: in accordance with a determination that the task is a task of a first type, performing the task, and in accordance with a determination that the task is a task of a second type different than the first type, displaying a confirmation interface including a confirmation affordance.
US11076036B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor the personal safety of a user of a portable electronic device are disclosed. Example portable electronic devices disclosed herein are to adjust a threshold alert level based on event information obtained for a location associated with the portable electronic device, the threshold alert level to indicate a degree of danger to which a user of the portable electronic device is exposed. Disclosed example portable electronic devices are also to determine that the threshold alert level has been satisfied when at least a threshold number of a set of usage attributes associated with the threshold alert level are detected in a monitored set of usage attributes. Disclosed example portable electronic devices are further to actuate an output device associated with the portable electronic device when the threshold alert level is satisfied.
US11076035B2
Systems and methods for actuating a Do Not Disturb (DND) feature of a playback device that is configured to play back alert notifications from a plurality of network-enabled devices include (i) a mobile device receiving input data representing a selection of the playback device; (ii) the mobile device receiving input data representing a selection of a DND time period; and (iii) responsive to receiving the input data representing the selections of the playback device and the DND time period, sending an instruction to the selected playback device that causes the selected playback device to enter a DND mode for the duration of the selected DND time period, during which the selected playback device is instructed to not play back alert notifications when the alert notifications are received from at least one network-enabled device of the plurality of network-enabled devices.
US11076033B1
A smart device support is disclosed to mount a mobile electronic device to a variety of support surfaces, such as a seatback of a common carrier transport, a motor vehicle, and the like. The smart device support includes a frame. A lip protrudes from a front surface of the frame. The lip dimensioned to engage with a top edge of the mobile electronic device. An elastic band with opposed terminal ends of the elastic band extending from the front surface the frame. The elastic band is configured to retain a corner of the mobile electronic device and urge the top edge of the mobile electronic device in engagement with the lip. The smart device support may be mounted to the support surface via a suction cup or a tongue extending from a back surface of the frame.
US11076024B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify and manage IoT protocols and associated devices. An example apparatus includes a gateway device to communicate according to a first protocol. The example gateway device includes a plugin agent to discover a first device and probe the first device to gather data regarding a protocol of the first device. The example plugin agent is to transmit the gathered data to a plugin manager to determine whether the first device is to communicate via the first protocol, and, when the first device is unable to communicate via the first protocol, determine a plugin for the gateway device to enable the gateway device to communicate with the first device, the plugin agent to provision the plugin for the gateway device with respect to the first device.
US11076023B1
Network requests are made to download a data object for a display page with different time delays. Page load outcomes of the display page are determined. A criticality of downloading the data object with respect to the display page is determined using page load outcomes. Criticalities of data objects of the display page are used to generate a specific data object download order that prioritizes critical and/or blocking objects of the display page.
US11076022B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can initiate a robotics framework configured to enable inter-process communications between a plurality of services implemented on the robotics framework, the plurality of services configured to operate at least some features of a vehicle. A function call is received from a first service of the plurality of services. The function call instructs the robotics framework to generate a network socket. A virtual network socket configured to receive data from a data log is generated based on the function call. The virtual network socket simulates data transmission with a hardware device over a real network socket.
US11076018B1
Systems and methods for account association with voice-enabled devices are disclosed. For example, a voice-enabled device situated in a managed environment, such as a hotel room, may be taken by a temporary resident or guest of the environment. Upon determining that the device has been removed from the environment, a device identifier associated with the device may be dissociated from components and/or services associated with environment and/or systems related thereto, and the device identifier may be associated with a user account of the user.
US11076016B1
A device may monitor a session involving a first user equipment and a network. The device may determine that content associated with the session is cacheable based on a characteristic of the content. The device may determine a status of the first user equipment. The device may select, based on the status and the characteristic, the first user equipment to cache content data associated with the content and transmit a cache message to the first user equipment. The cache message may be configured to cause the first user equipment to cache the content data in a local data structure of the first user equipment. The device may perform an action associated with causing the first user equipment to provide the content to a second user equipment that requests the content via the network.
US11076015B2
A proxy device includes a processor circuit, a memory coupled to the processor circuit, and a network interface coupled to the processor circuit. The processor circuit is configured to function as a proxy for network communications to and from an internet of things, IoT, device that is located within a same home network as the proxy device. The processor circuit is configured to determine that the IoT device is in sleep mode in which the IoT device is unable to send or receive network communications, and, in response to determining that the IoT device is in sleep mode, to store network communications received from a remote server on behalf of the IoT device until determining that the IoT device has entered active mode in which the IoT device is able to send and receive network communications.
US11076014B2
A computer-readable tangible non-transitory storage medium storing a program that causes a terminal device to perform: transmitting, to a first server device, a first instruction to store second identification information of a first user in association with first identification information of the first user; obtaining, from the first server device, a notification of completion of a process responding to the first instruction; displaying the completion of the process; transmitting, to the first server device, a second instruction to give the first user a bonus corresponding to a second user, when the second identification information of the second user is included in list information including the second identification information of other users associated with the first user in the second server device; obtaining a notification of completion of a process responding to the second instruction from the first server device; and displaying completion of the process.
US11076012B2
A server cluster and method for providing a push notification service are provided. The method includes searching for, by a management server cluster, a first push server corresponding to predetermined search criteria from among a plurality of push servers upon receiving a request to connect with a push server from a mobile terminal; providing, by the management server cluster, connection information regarding the found first push server to the mobile terminal; and delivering, by the first push server, upon generation of a notification event after connecting with the mobile terminal, event information corresponding to the push notification event to the connected mobile terminal.
US11076008B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide information to a user based on a symbol with a plurality of interpretations. Each candidate interpretation for the symbol is identified and compared to an attribute of a user profile. The meaning of the symbol is determined and the user profile is updated with the meaning of the symbol. This meaning may be used to provide relevant information to the user.
US11076005B2
The present disclosure relates to a system, method, and computer-program product for identifying and tagging users. Embodiments may include receiving, using at least one processor, a first content request. Embodiments may further include associating a user-access identifier with a first portion of data from the first content request based upon a second portion of the data from the first content request. Embodiments may also include storing the first portion of data from the first content request and the user-access identifier within a memory system. Embodiments may further include receiving a second content request. Embodiments may also include generating a user-identifier tag based upon the user-access identifier stored in the memory system, the first portion of data from the first content request, and a first portion of data from the second content request. Embodiments may further include providing a response to the second content request, the response including the user-identifier tag.
US11076004B2
Systems and methods are provided for enabling optimized real-time responsive and continuous location-based services in three-dimensional space, including cloud computing, rendering, tracking, and communication through a distributed computing center network. The system includes distributed computing centers connected to data centers, wherein each computing center further comprises one or more cloud servers configured with computing resources sufficient to perform computing and rendering for one or more client devices, and wherein each data center further comprises one or more master servers with computing resources sufficient to perform application and user data storage, synchronization of digital reality data sent by cloud servers, and dynamic network slicing and quality of service management. Instructions to perform these methods are implemented in a digital reality virtual radio access network portion in cloud servers.
US11075996B2
A method, system and computer readable medium for remote control of a remote device by a remote dashboard console of a client device. The method includes identifying the remote device for management via the remote dashboard console of the client device. The remote dashboard console receives a set of plug-ins associated with multiple remote device applications installed on the remote device from a remote dashboard agent of the remote device. The remote dashboard console of the client device executes a target application of the multiple remote device applications device using a corresponding plug-in of the set of plug-ins.
US11075994B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods detect and respond to environmental anomalies in a shipping container on a transit vehicle having an external transceiver. Systems generally have wireless ID nodes at different locations within the container and a command node mounted to the container. The command node is programmatically adapted to selectively assign a subset of the ID nodes as dedicated monitor beacons deployed within the container, identify an unresponsive group from the assigned subset of the ID nodes monitored to be in an unanticipated state of ceased broadcasting based upon the monitoring step. The command node detects the environmental anomaly when a size of the unresponsive group in the assigned subset of ID nodes exceeds a threshold setting maintained by the command node, automatically generates an alert notification related to the detected environmental anomaly, and initiates a mediation response for the anomaly by transmitting the alert notification to the vehicle's transceiver.
US11075990B2
The present invention provides a cloud usage assisting apparatus which assists determination of an optimal cloud usage configuration. The cloud usage assisting apparatus calculates changes in performance and cost of a service which are to occur when each of actions is executed and a configuration change is made, based on menu information, storage resource configuration information, and monitoring information, each of the actions being an action in which at least one of the configuration changes of changing of a menu of the storage service involving one cloud, changing of the menu involving different clouds, and changing of a parameter that changes the configurations of the storage resources in the menu are executed on storage resources provided by one or more clouds, and determines the action as a recommended candidate when the action improves at least one of the performance and the cost.
US11075988B2
The embodiments herein provide a fair, high speed and lightweight consensus mechanism for leader election in distributed systems using coupons. The consensus mechanism uses a leader election mechanism that is randomized in twin dimensions of space and time using the concept of a colliding random walk. A source node is enabled to generate left and right coupons in a quantum resistant manner for random walks. Two novel coupon processing mechanisms called Process Execution Time Synchronization (PETS) mechanism and Single Queue (SQ) mechanism are used to process the coupons and find matches. The use of PETS optimizes memory and time requirements while SQ is extremely fast and efficient to handle large volumes of coupons. Also, the coupon forwarding to neighbouring nodes is performed based on three algorithms namely Uniform, Delay and Adaptive Delay forward. These forwarding algorithms effect high fairness even in case of open networks.
US11075982B2
The present disclosure generally discloses a host scaling capability for supporting scaling of hosts in a distributed event handling system. The host scaling capability may be configured to support scaling of hosts in a distributed event handling system which may use distributed queuing of events, distributed processing of events, and so forth. The distributed event handling system may be serverless cloud system or other type of distributed event handling system.
US11075972B2
The disclosure is directed to systems and methods for local rendering of 3D models which are then accessed by remote computers. The advantage of the system is that extensive hardware needed for rendering complex 3D models is centralized and can be accessed by smaller remote computers without and special hardware or software installation. The system also provides enhanced security as model data can be restricted to a limited number of servers instead of stored on individual computers.
US11075964B1
Systems and techniques for permitting, establishing, monitoring and controlling calls based on messages from outside parties, outside party availability information, institution's call restriction information, and/or account holder preferences. In one example, a message from an outside party app on an outside party computing device is receive by an inmate app on an inmate device. The inmate device displays the message at the inmate calling app including a request for the inmate to call the outside party device during a time period. When the inmate initiates a call to the outside party the call is permitted or not permitted based on determining whether the call is within the specified time period.
US11075961B2
A message processing method, apparatus, and system, which include: receiving a sharing request for a source message and sent by a terminal, the source message carrying a password and an enterprise account identifier, the sharing request including a sharing user account identifier; returning at least one account identifier to the terminal, and receiving a determined target account identifier with which the source message is shared and that is selected by the terminal; setting an electronic resource property for the source message according to a preset rule to generate a target message, sending the target message to a target user corresponding to the target account identifier; and transferring, according to the electronic resource property, an electronic resource corresponding to an associated account of the enterprise account identifier to an associated account of the sharing user account identifier if receiving a drawing request sent by the terminal and that carries the password.
US11075959B2
A system includes a security controller located within a central-zone in communication with a provisioned agent operating on an edge-zone device. The security controller may implement controller-blind security control on the edge-zone device by making security authorization determinations using a secure-operation confidence analysis performed by the provisioned agent. The provisioned agent, operating within the edge-zone, may have access to un-sanitized data, which may be unavailable to the security controller in the central-zone. The security controller may provide condition-descriptors via a secure-operation confidence assignment matrix. Using the condition-descriptors, the provisioned agent determine feedback, which may include a secure-operation confidence coefficient, based on the un-sanitized data to which the security controller is blind.
US11075958B2
A method includes identifying power connections between plural components of a time sensitive network (TSN) that are interconnected via a predetermined connection plan. The method also includes determining a topology of the components of the TSN based on the power connections. Also, the method includes scheduling flows for the TSN based on the topology determined based on the power connections.
US11075940B2
An internal network can include a plurality of linked internal nodes, each internal node being configured to communicate with other internal nodes or with one or more external servers over an external network. The internal network can analyze the configuration of the internal nodes and the network traffic between internal nodes of the internal network and external servers. Based on the analysis, a network vulnerability score measuring the vulnerability of the internal network to attack can be determined. If the vulnerability score is below a threshold, the internal network can be isolated from the external network, for example by preventing internal nodes from communicating with or over the external network.
US11075939B2
Systems and methods for determining priority levels to process vulnerabilities associated with a networked computer system can include a data collection engine receiving a plurality of specification profiles, each defining one or more specification variables of the networked computer system or a respective asset. The data collection engine can receive, from a vulnerability scanner, vulnerability data indicative of a vulnerability associated with the networked computer system. A profiling engine can interrogate a computing device of the networked computer system, and receive one or more respective profiling parameters from that computing device. A ranking engine can compute a priority ranking value of the computing device based on the profile specification variables, the vulnerability data and the profiling parameters. The priority ranking value associated with the computing device can be indicative of a priority level, compared to other computing devices of the computer network, for patching a vulnerability affecting that computing device.
US11075938B2
This specification discloses techniques for risk identification. One example method includes receiving, by a client device, a risk identification request identifying a requested service operation and service data associated with the requested service operation; retrieving, by the client device, service data corresponding to the risk identification request; determining, by the client device, service indicator data associated with the service data; analyzing, by the client device, one or more of the service data and the service indicator based on a risk identification rule or a risk identification model to produce a risk result; and determining, by the client device, whether the requested service operation is a high risk operation based at least in part on the risk result.
US11075937B2
A segmentation server generates vulnerability exposure scores associated with workloads operating in a segmented computing environment. The segmentation server may automatically aggregate the vulnerability exposure scores in various ways to generate vulnerability exposure information representative of workloads in an administrative domain controlled by the segmentation server. The aggregated vulnerability exposure information may be presented in a manner that enables an administrator to easily evaluate different segmentation strategies and assess the risks associated with each of them. Moreover, the segmentation server can automatically generate a segmentation policy that modifies a configured segmentation strategy based on the vulnerability exposure scores to reduce exposure to certain vulnerabilities without impeding operation of the workloads.
US11075936B2
A segmentation server generates vulnerability exposure scores associated with workloads operating in a segmented computing environment. The segmentation server may automatically aggregate the vulnerability exposure scores in various ways to generate vulnerability exposure information representative of workloads in an administrative domain controlled by the segmentation server. The aggregated vulnerability exposure information may be presented in a manner that enables an administrator to easily evaluate different segmentation strategies and assess the risks associated with each of them. Moreover, the segmentation server can automatically generate a segmentation policy that modifies a configured segmentation strategy based on the vulnerability exposure scores to reduce exposure to certain vulnerabilities without impeding operation of the workloads.
US11075935B2
The invention relates to a computer-implemented system and method for automatic collection, analysis and reporting of data relating to a cybersecurity threat. The method may comprise the steps of: presenting an interface through which an executable can be configured and automatically generated; transmitting the executable to a client to enable the client to execute the executable on client systems to automatically collect forensic data; receiving from the client an encrypted data package that includes the forensic data; using a forensic toolset to automatically analyze the forensic data; presenting an option to select one or more of at least two types of output reports designed for different types of readers; inputting the analysis files into an automatic report generator to automatically generate the types of output reports selected by the client; and sending the output reports selected by the client to the client.
US11075930B1
According to one embodiment, a system for detecting an email campaign includes feature extraction logic, pre-processing logic, campaign analysis logic and a reporting engine. The feature extraction logic obtains features from each of a plurality of malicious email messages received for analysis while the pre-processing logic generates a plurality of email representations that are arranged in an ordered sequence and correspond to the plurality of malicious email message. The campaign analysis logic determines the presence of an email campaign in response to a prescribed number of successive email representations being correlated to each other, where the results of the email campaign detection are provided to a security administrator via the reporting engine.
US11075927B2
A fraud detection electronic control unit is connected to an electronic control unit through an in-vehicle network system. The fraud detection electronic control unit includes a storage and a determination unit. The storage stores a first regulation for determining whether the frame transmitted from the electronic control unit is fraudulent. The determination unit determines whether the frame transmitted from the electronic control unit is fraudulent in pursuant to the first regulation. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, the storage acquires a second regulation retained by the electronic control unit and updates the stored first regulation.
US11075926B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for intrusion detection are provided. Aspects include receiving, by a processor, internet of things (IoT) device data from each of a plurality of IoT devices, wherein the IoT device data comprises operational data and non-operational data associated with each of the plurality of IoT devices. A security model is built for the plurality of IoT devices based at least in part on the IoT device data, wherein the security model comprises one or more IoT device data ranges. The plurality of IoT devices are monitored to identify a potential intrusion in any of the plurality of IoT devices based at least in part on the IoT device data exceeding any of the one or more IoT device data ranges.
US11075916B2
In an embodiment, the disclosed technologies include storing, in one or more searchable digital data structures, a set of digital entitlements; where an entitlement of the set of digital entitlements identifies a distinct computer functionality and a downstream service that can perform the distinct computer functionality using digital data; storing, in the one or more searchable digital data structures, a digital data entity; where the digital data entity includes a subset of the set of digital entitlements; storing, in the one or more searchable digital data structures, a digital mapping that associates digital data entities with entitlements of the set of digital entitlements; exposing the set of digital entitlements for use by the downstream service; exposing the digital data entity for use by an upstream service; in response to a creation of or an update of an instance of digital data via the upstream service, using the digital mapping to determine to perform the distinct computer functionality using the instance of digital data or to determine not to perform the distinct computer functionality using the instance of the digital data.
US11075914B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a Social Networking and video sharing platform for children and parents. A private video sharing system enables children to send and receive videos, comment on videos, and add friends who interact with the videos. The Social Networking platform disclosed herein provides parental drop-in features for enabling a parent account to “drop-in” to an associated child account to review the account activity and report any inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive behavior or media.
US11075908B2
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for improving security and simplifying authentication in a software defined network (“SDN”). In various embodiments, the systems and methods disclosed herein may be applied in operational technology networks, such as those used in electrical power systems. In one embodiment, a device to be authenticated may be in communication with a network device. The network device may receive authentication credentials from the device to be authenticated and may communicate the authentication credentials to an authenticator. The authenticator may assess and approve the authentication credentials and communicate approval of the authentication credentials to the network device. The network device may implement a plurality of communication flows associated with the device to be authenticated.
US11075901B1
Systems and methods are described for authenticating a user accessing a user account. A behavior event associated with a current user using the user account during a session is obtained. The behavior event comprises of keystroke events and mouse events. The obtained behavior event of the current user is compared with a behavior profile of a registered user associated with the user account. The behavior profile comprises keystroke events and mouse events associated with the registered user. The current user is authenticated during the session, when the current user is determined to be the same as the registered user based on the comparison.
US11075895B2
A cloud operation interface sharing method, a related device includes: displaying, by a first terminal device, a first message sent by a cloud operating system of a second terminal device, where the first message carries first authentication information and address information of the cloud operating system, and the first message informs the first terminal device that the second terminal device authorizes the first terminal device to use the cloud operating system; requesting, by the first terminal device, authentication from the cloud operating system; after the authentication succeeds, establishing, by the first terminal device, a connection to the cloud operating system; receiving, by the first terminal device, interface information sent by the cloud operating system; and switching, by the first terminal device, a currently displayed first operation interface to a second operation interface corresponding to the interface information.
US11075890B2
A method, system and computer program product for wireless communication between vehicles are provided. In the method, identification information of a first vehicle by a second vehicle being spatially close to the first vehicle is obtained. And a first key associated with the first vehicle by using the identification information is acquired. Data originated from the first vehicle and signed with a second key corresponding to the first key are identified with the first key. And then the identified data is processed.
US11075888B2
For a network including multiple computers acting as tunnel endpoints in a network, some embodiments provide a method for distributing data messages among processors of a destination computer that receives encrypted data messages from a source computer. Each computer in some embodiments has a set of interfaces configured as tunnel endpoints connecting to multiple tunnels. The encrypted data messages are received at multiple interfaces of the destination computer and in some embodiments, include an identifier for a set of encryption parameters (e.g., a security parameter index). The encryption-parameter-set identifier is used to distribute encrypted data messages among processors of the destination computer.
US11075879B1
A computer-implemented method for running on a computing device is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes detecting an initialization sequence triggered by a network interface event. A request is received to load a non-local MAC address into local register storage associated with the computing device. The request is intercepted, and a local MAC address corresponding to the computing device is substituted into the local register storage.
US11075873B2
A method for facilitating focused use of an email client includes entering an inbox pause mode and pausing display of at least some new email messages and email notifications while in the inbox pause mode. The method also includes detecting, while in the inbox pause mode, a selection by a user of a previously received email message that was received prior to entering the inbox pause mode. The method also includes displaying, while in the inbox pause mode, information about a subsequently received email message that is received subsequent to entering the inbox pause mode and that belongs to a conversation comprising the previously received email message.
US11075871B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for assigning tasks to collaborators of a file through a contextual action. In one aspect, rendering of a file within an email application including a reading pane may be initiated. A task object may be created based on an input made with respect to the file. A reference point associated with the task object may be created within the file. The task object may be assigned to at least one collaborator of the file via the email application.
US11075866B2
A method of exchanging messages between users over a network includes receiving a registration request from an organization and provisioning an organizational sub-domain, verifying the registration request according to requirements of a first protocol and provisioning a first user address that is part of the organizational sub-domain, and sending a message from the first user address to a second user address according to the first protocol.
US11075864B2
A non-transitory computer readable recording medium records a conversation control program that causes a computer to execute processing including: receiving an instruction to change a specific input message among messages displayed in times series to another input message; and displaying the other input message and a response message to the other input message in time series.
US11075863B2
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for publisher and share action integration in a user interface (UI) for automated messaging. In some implementations, information is displayed in a first component and in a second component in a UI on a display. The first component is a publisher configured for composing and sharing messages on different communication channels using different share actions. The second component includes links to data items. When one of the data items is selected, a set of share actions for sharing the selected item using the publisher can be identified and displayed. When one of the displayed share actions is selected, it can be determined that the selected share action is applicable to one of the communication channels. A reference to the selected item can be provided in a message being composed in the publisher for sharing on the one communication channel.
US11075851B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. A first call for content to be published on a resource associated with a publisher is received from a requesting device. A determination is made when the publisher has authorized additional content item calls to be automatically generated responsive to receipt of the first call. A first content item responsive to the first call is determined. A message including call parameters is generated that define publisher or serving system criteria for the additional content items. The first content item and message responsive to the first call are provided. A second call for content, in conformance with the call parameters, is received after processing the message. A second different content item that is responsive to the second call is provided for publication on the resource along with the first content item.
US11075850B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing routing of traffic between clients and resource instances when providing stateful services. For example, systems disclosed herein involve a load balancer that routes probe request(s) from clients to corresponding resource instances having access to stateful session data for a stateful session between the resource instance(s) and corresponding client(s). The resource instances may provide instance identifiers to the clients for use in generating subsequent session calls. In this way, systems described herein ensure that subsequent session calls are passed to the correct resource instances having access to relevant session information.
US11075849B2
A method for classifying network traffic data includes: selecting a subset of network destinations from the network traffic data to be evaluated to determine whether to classify the subset of network destinations with a common classification label, the common classification label corresponding to a common classification class; determining a list of vector representations for the subset of the network destinations contained in the network traffic data and a vector representation for the common classification label; computing a distance between a vector representation for a network domain and the vector representation of the classification label, the vector representation for the network domain being determined from the list of vector representations; classifying the subset of the network destinations as belonging to the common classification class based on the distance being less than a predefined threshold.
US11075845B2
Systems and methods of site traffic control are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a request for an online service to perform an operation is received from a user on a client device, and at least one overload condition for the online service is detected, or otherwise determined, with the overload condition(s) corresponding to a request time of the request. A standard of restriction is selected from a plurality of standards of restriction based on the overload condition(s), and the selected standard of restriction is used as a basis for either denying or permitting the user access to the operation of the online service.
US11075838B2
A network device is provided that comprises a plurality of physical ports, an autonomic device fabric (ADF) module configured to receive, send, and forward data packets via the plurality of physical ports, a memory that stores instructions, and one or more processors configured by the instructions to perform operations. The operations comprise determining that network device software is not installed and requesting the network device software from a management machine using the ADF module.
US11075831B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a system and method for dynamically duplicating network packets onto a reliable link. Network devices can be connected by a primary link and by a secondary link. As the network quality of the first link degrades, the system can adaptively duplicate network packets onto the second link. As a high priority link, the secondary link can have less total bandwidth when compared to the primary link. Accordingly, all the traffic traversing the primary link may not be able to be duplicated onto the secondary link to preserve network reliability when the quality of the first link degrades. The present solution can effectively manage the bandwidth of the secondary link and set duplication rates that control the duplication of the packets onto the secondary link.
US11075818B2
A method and system for using plug-in analysis modules to analyze network traffic data is disclosed. The network has computing devices coupled to a network traffic appliance that routes data to and from the computing devices. A plug-in network analysis module is installed on a network traffic recommendation engine. The network analysis module is run to obtain selected network traffic data on the network. The selected network traffic data is analyzed via the network analysis module. A recommendation is output based on the selected network traffic data. A policy is adjusted based on the recommendation to improve the efficiency of the network traffic to the computing devices.
US11075815B2
A network building apparatus (2) includes a collection unit (11) configured to scan each node connected to a network and collect environmental data of the network, a design unit (21) configured to design a virtual network obtained by virtualizing the network based on the environmental data collected by the collection unit (11), and an output unit (31) configured to output design data of the virtual network designed by the design unit (21).
US11075812B2
Server and methods for performing synchronization and resynchronization of networking information with client devices. During standard operations, client networking data discovered by a given client device are received by the server from the given client device, stored by the server, and forwarded by the server to other client devices. Client networking data from the other client devices received and stored by the server are forwarded to the given client device. Upon occurrence of a pre-defined event at the given client device preventing exchange of information between the given client device and the server, a resynchronization of the client networking data is performed between the given client device and the server. The synchronization and resynchronization mechanisms are based on unique version numbers respectively generated by the server and the given client device.
US11075801B2
Systems and methods for system reconfiguration of a computing system that includes a plurality of memory and computing resources, may include: assigning a reconfiguration capability to a user, the reconfiguration capability granting the user a right to reconfigure at least one of memory and computing resources in the computing system; a controller of the computing system receiving a reconfiguration request from a user for a requested system reconfiguration along with that user's configuration capability; the controller of the computing system verifying that the user from which the reconfiguration request was received has the rights to make the requested system reconfiguration; and the controller of the system executing the requested system reconfiguration if the user has the rights to make the requested system reconfiguration.
US11075800B2
A system and method for characterizing a connection configuration of a client connecting to a computer system. The system can host a web service to which a client is redirected or connected to establish a client session between the client and the web service. The web service then actively and/or passively measures various attributes associated with the communication layers, such as latencies and/or configuration settings associated with each of the communication layers. Based on differences between the attributes of the communication layers, the computer system can characterize the client connection configuration. Various client connection configurations can include conventional connections, connections utilizing an external domain name service, connections through virtual private networks, connections through various proxies, and so on. Based on the characterized connection configuration, the computer system can take various actions, such as terminating the connection between the client and the computer system.
US11075799B2
In accordance with various embodiments, described herein are systems and methods for use with a multi-tenant application server environment, that support provisioning of domain partitions for use with software applications, including the provisioning of partitions with required components. Provisioning requests that are received at a lifecycle manager, and that specify the provisioning of a particular partition, can be communicated to a provisioning framework, for use in provisioning the partition, including where appropriate, the use of component-specific handlers that recognize partition provisioning events or control actions such as, for example, copying files, executing scripts, or updating configurations.
US11075797B2
Various communication systems may benefit from improved communications in a cloud radio access network. A method, in certain embodiments, may include receiving, at a network node frontend, which supports at least one of a first cell identification or a first base station identification, an indication that at least one of a second cell identification or a second base station identification is supported by a plurality of other network node frontends. The method may also establishing multiple connections between the network node frontend and the plurality of other network node frontends in which at least one of the second cell identification or the second base station identification is supported. In addition, the method may include transmitting a message related to the second cell identification or the second base station identification using any one of the multiple connections between the network node frontend and the plurality of other network node frontends.
US11075795B2
An arbitration method, apparatus, and system, relates to the field of computer technologies, where the arbitration method, executed by a first data center, includes viewing a preset arbitration policy when determining that communication between the first data center and a second data center is interrupted, and an arbitration device cannot perform arbitration, and continuing providing a service when determining, according to the arbitration policy, that the first data center is a preferred data center, or stopping providing the service when determining, according to the preset arbitration policy, that the first data center is not the preferred data center, where the first data center and the second data center are active-active data centers. Hence, the arbitration method, apparatus, and system solve a problem of a service interruption caused by a fault of the arbitration device, therefore an uninterrupted service is provided for a user.
US11075794B2
A system may include one or more processors disposed within a management network. An end-user network may contain agent instances and one or more servers, where the one or more servers are operable to: (i) receive communications to the end-user network, and (ii) assign agent instances to service the communications. The one or more processors may be configured to perform one or more tasks. These tasks may include receiving, from the end-user network, data associated with the processes of the one or more servers; determining, based on a specification, operations to be performed by the one or more servers, wherein the specification is defined by the end-user network and comprises logical directives, each directive containing conditions that, if satisfied by the received data, define the operations; and providing, to the one or more servers, the operations.
US11075783B2
A communication method for phase separation differential chaos shift keying (DCSK) based on a second order hybrid system (SOHS) is provided. The method includes the following steps. At Step 1: communication system parameters are set. At Step 2: binary information to be transmitted are prepared. At Step 3: the chaotic signal u(t) is generated. At Step 4: the chaotic signal is prepared to be transmitted. At Step 5: a received signal is demodulated. At Step 6: a chaotic matched filtering operation is performed on the demodulated reference signal and the demodulated information bearing signal. At Step 7: optimal signal to noise ratio (SNR) points are extracted in a sampling way. At Step 8: polarity of each symbol is determined to obtain a recovered signal.
US11075777B2
Disclosed are various approaches for providing on-demand virtual private network (VPN) connectivity on a per-application basis. An application is determined to have begun execution on a computing device. The application is identified. A determination that the application is authorized to access a VPN connection is made, and the VPN connection is created.
US11075772B2
The present invention provides a support system for supporting the commissioning of a networked power distribution system (1). The networked power distribution system comprises at least one power supply (2) with one or more power connectors (12, 12a) for supplying power to the one or more power connectors and a data communication interface for exchanging communication data. The support system (6) comprises one or more load device detectors (7) for detecting the connecting and/or disconnecting of a load device (3a) to/from a power connector (12a), and a commissioning tool (8) for performing steps of commissioning the networked power distribution system with regard to the load device. The commissioning tool is adapted to automatically perform at least some of the commissioning steps in response to the detection of the connecting and/or disconnecting of the load device. This can allow for a relatively easy commissioning of the networked power distribution system.
US11075767B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing transaction verification through enhanced authentication are provided. A method performed by a computer system may include receiving an application programming interface (API) request from a client, detecting a change associated with the API request as compared to a prior use of the API by the client, generating an encrypted challenge to authenticate the API request based on detecting the change, and issuing the encrypted challenge to the client to authenticate the API request.
US11075766B1
A method and system for certification and authentication of objects is disclosed herein. The method and system use multiple attestations along with digital ledger technology to provide a digital certificate of authenticity for an object such as a work of art, collectible, or the like. QR codes attached to the collectible object and recorded at a central database provide a further degree of confidence in the authenticity of the object.
US11075749B2
A method in a User Equipment (UE) of an Evolved Packet System (EPS) establishes a security key (K_eNB) for protecting Radio Resource Control/User Plane (RRC/UP) traffic exchanged with a serving eNodeB. The method comprises sending a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) Service Request to a Mobility Management Entity (MME), the request indicating a NAS uplink sequence number (NAS_U_SEQ). The method further comprises receiving an indication of the NAS_U_SEQ of the NAS Service Request sent to the MME, back from the MME via the eNodeB. The method further comprises deriving the K_eNB from at least the received indication of the NAS_U_SEQ and from a stored Access Security Management Entity-key (K_ASME) shared with said MME.
US11075747B1
A method for storing time-sensitive secrets in a network is provided. The method includes receiving a first encryption key from multiple encryption keys, the multiple encryption keys associated with a first time window and accessing a data packet encoded according to the encryption keys. The method also includes writing a decrypted data packet to a block in a blockchain when the first encryption key matches a first time-sensitive value, and writing the decrypted data packet to the block in the blockchain when a second encryption key, received from the content provider, matches a second time-sensitive value after the first time-sensitive value has lapsed, wherein the first time-sensitive value and the second time-sensitive value are a non-overlapping time sequence in the first time window. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also provided.
US11075726B2
A receiver for detecting and recovering payload data from a received signal is provided. The receiver includes a detector, a frequency synchronizer, and a demodulator. The receiver is configured to detect the received signal. The received signal includes the payload data and signalling data for use in detecting and recovering the payload data. The frequency synchronizer is configured to process the received signal so as to compensate for a frequency offset in the received signal. The demodulator is configured to detect the one or more first symbols and the one or more second symbols, to recover the signalling data from the one or more first symbols, and to use the signalling data to recover the payload data from the one or more second symbols. The sequence is a signature sequence associated with a transmitter of the received signal.
US11075722B2
Embodiments are provided for supporting variable sub-carrier spacing and symbol duration for transmitting OFDM or other waveform symbols and associated cyclic prefixes. The symbol duration includes the useful symbol length and its associated cyclic prefix length. The variable sub-carrier spacing and symbol duration is determined via parameters indicating the sub-carrier spacing, useful symbol length, and cyclic prefix length. An embodiment method, by a network or a network controller, includes establishing a plurality of multiple access block (MAB) types defining different combinations of sub-carrier spacing and symbol duration for waveform transmissions. The method further includes partitioning a frequency and time plane of a carrier spectrum band into a plurality of MAB regions comprising frequency-time slots for the waveform transmissions. The MAB types are then selected for the MAB regions, wherein one MAB type is assigned to one corresponding MAB region.
US11075721B2
Channel plan management enables a radio to select preferred channels within a potentially noisy radio frequency (RF) spectrum. In an example of RF spectrum analysis and channel plan management, a channel assessment tool analyzes RF spectrum, builds and maintains a database that include RF spectrum and/or channel information. In an example, a channel assessment tool (CAT) manager periodically collects the data from packet error rate (PER) estimators and resets them for a new collection interval. The CAT manager builds a statistical database for all channels. This database is used to identify the best channels over that collection period, which is then ultimately used to build a new channel plan. The CAT statistical database to generate a new active channel plan which is ultimately updated across many or all devices within a radio network.
US11075720B2
A communications network for communication between at least one power electronics element and at least one control unit is disclosed. At least one transmit/receive unit of the communications network is configured to receive at least one signal from an upstream direction, and evaluate if the at least one signal is correctly received. In case the at least one signal is correctly received, the at least one transmit/receive unit is configured to forward, in an allocated first time slot, the at least one signal to a plurality of transmit/receive units in a downstream direction, and receive, in an allocated second time slot, a plurality of signals from the plurality of transmit/receive units as a response of the forwarded at least one signal.
US11075716B2
A network device implements a repetition scheme to generate a repetition-encoded forward error correction (FEC) codeword for a FEC codeword. The repetition-encoded FEC codeword includes a set of N offset-shifted bit sequences. In some embodiments, each bit sequence is formed by M replicas of the FEC codeword and an offset is applied to shift the bit sequence where the offset is different for each bit sequence. The set of N offset-shifted bit sequences are allocated into N orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, wherein each offset-shifted bit sequence is allocated over a corresponding OFDM symbol.
US11075706B2
An enhanced radio system is disclosed that provides for the capture and playback of one or more radio stations. A user may tune to a station, scan through stations, rewind through missed content (even while the system is off), and fast-forward through undesired content, while downloading and uploading audio content, and sending content to another user. A user may rate content, and be notified when that content is played on any station, with undesirable content skipped and desirable content saved, or station recommendations made. Support for multiple sets of configuration information to allow use by multiple listeners and in multiple locations may be provided. Optionally provided are security features to prevent the unauthorized downloading, uploading, and saving of copies of content, other radio related and content related information, a karaoke mode, integration with a telephone with the radio, or reporting usage information to a collection facility.
US11075702B2
Empirically modulated antenna systems and related methods are disclosed herein. An empirically modulated antenna system includes an antenna and a controller programmed to control the antenna. The antenna includes a plurality of discrete scattering elements arranged in a one- or two-dimensional arrangement. A method includes modulating operational states of at least a portion of a plurality of discrete scattering elements of the antenna in a plurality of different modulation patterns. The plurality of different modulation patterns includes different permutations of the discrete scattering elements operating in different operational states. The method also includes evaluating a performance parameter of the antenna responsive to the plurality of different empirical one- or two-dimensional modulation patterns. The method further includes operating the antenna in one of the plurality of different one- or two-dimensional empirical modulation patterns selected based, at least in part, on the performance parameter.
US11075688B2
An apparatus of a base station in a network may include a memory device and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device may process a message received at the base station from a macro-cell base station. The message may include a request to act as a relay for a user equipment (UE). The processing device may then determine that the base station is to act as a relay for the UE. The processing device may then generate a message comprising an indication that the base station accepted the request to act as a relay for the UE.
US11075686B2
Disclosed are a signal transmission method and device. The method includes: a terminal receives a synchronization signal sent by a network side device; the terminal determines a beam Identifier (ID) and at least part of cell ID according to the synchronization signal; and the terminal transmits a subsequent signal according to the beam ID and/or the at least part of cell ID. In the embodiments, the terminal can determine the beam ID and the at least part of the cell ID according to the synchronization signal and thus the terminal determines a beam used when the subsequent signal is transmitted.
US11075684B2
A method of estimating a channel quality of an uplink channel from a user equipment comprises receiving a measurement report from a user equipment, wherein the measurement report is based on at least one measurement made by the user equipment on a first downlink reference signal previously transmitted to the user equipment using a first downlink beamformer and at least one measurement made by the user equipment on a second downlink reference signal previously transmitted to the user equipment using a second downlink beamformer. The method comprises acquiring an estimate of a channel quality of a first uplink channel from the user equipment, in which a first uplink beamformer has been used to transmit a first uplink signal on the first uplink channel. The method comprises determining at least one transmission parameter for a future second uplink channel from the user equipment, in which a second uplink beamformer is to be used to transmit on the second uplink channel, wherein the at least one transmission parameter is determined based on the received measurement report and the acquired estimate of the channel quality of the first uplink channel.
US11075682B2
A first apparatus may send, to a base station in a first carrier frequency, a request associated with determination of a first beam used for communication between the base station and the UE. The first apparatus may communicate with the base station in a second carrier frequency based on the request associated with the determination of the first beam, the first carrier frequency being different from the second carrier frequency. A second apparatus may receive, from a base station in a first carrier frequency, a message associated with determination of a first beam used for communication between the base station and the UE. The second apparatus may communicate with the base station in a second carrier frequency based on the message associated with the determination of the first beam, the first carrier frequency being different from the second carrier frequency.
US11075678B2
The present invention relates to a method for receiving a downlink signal in a wireless communication system. The method, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is performed by a terminal and may comprise the steps of: receiving control information indicating an aperiodic channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource masked with an identifier associated with an aperiodic CSI-RS; if the control information does not indicate an aperiodic CSI-RS resource for each terminal in a cell, determining that the aperiodic CSI-RS resource indicated by the control information is a resource element (RE) puncturing pattern for a downlink data channel or an improved downlink control channel; and decoding the downlink data channel or the improved downlink control channel by using the RE puncturing pattern.
US11075675B2
A base station selects a subset of at least one geographically separated antennas for each of the plurality of user equipments. The base station forms at least layer of data stream including modulated symbols, precodes the data stream via multiplication with the NT-by-N precoding matrix where N is the number of said layers and NT is the number of transmit antenna elements and transmits the precoded layers of data stream to the user equipment via the selected geographically separated antennas. The base station signals the subset of the plurality of geographically separated antennas via higher layer Radio Resource Control or via a down link grant mechanism. The base station optionally does not signal the subset of the plurality of geographically separated antennas to the corresponding mobile user equipment.
US11075674B2
There is provided a method comprising, in an antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements for use in a multiple-input multiple-output system, using at least one receiver for reception of at least one first signal by at least one of the plurality of antenna elements and using at least one first transceiver for at least one of transmission and reception of at least one second signal by at least one of the plurality of antenna elements, wherein the at least one receiver operates using at least one of a lower accuracy and a narrower bandwidth relative to the at least one first transceiver.
US11075670B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device for frequency hopping synchronization, a receiver, and a transmitter. The method comprises: when a synchronous frame, which is sent by the transmitter and comprises a transmitter frequency hopping starting count value corresponding to a preset clock, is received, determining a first count value, corresponding to the preset clock, of the received synchronous frame; acquiring the transmitter frequency hopping starting count value, corresponding to the preset clock, in the synchronous frame and the number of relevant transmission bytes of the synchronous frame; based on the received first count value and the received number of relevant transmission bytes of the synchronous frame, determining a predicted transmitter frequency hopping count value corresponding to the preset clock; and based on the predicted transmitter frequency hopping count value and the transmitter frequency hopping starting count value, determining a receiver frequency hopping starting count value. By applying the present technical solution, the frequency hopping of the receiver can be synchronized with the frequency hopping of the transmitter according to the receiver frequency hopping starting count value, and the precision of frequency hopping synchronization is greatly improved as the frequency hopping synchronization is implemented by controlling the receiver frequency hopping starting count value.
US11075669B2
The present disclosure discloses an M-ary DCSK method based on chaotic shape-forming filtering. The method includes the following steps: at S1, parameters of a communication system are set; at S2, HP information and LP information to be sent in each time slot are prepared; at S3, the information to be sent is modulated; at S4, a chaotic carrier is generated through a chaotic shape-forming filter; at S5, a transmitted signal is prepared; at S6, down-carrier frequency and matched filter is performed to a received signal; at S7, the sampling of a maximum SNR point is performed to an output signal of a matched filter; at S8, the decision of high priority information bits is resumed; and at S9, the decision of low priority information bits is resumed.
US11075664B2
A mobile phone holder includes: a first coupling part having a first accommodating portion, a first clamping portion and a first pressing portion; a second coupling part having a second accommodating portion, a second clamping portion, a second pressing portion, and a sliding opening; and an extension spring. The first pressing portion penetrates into the second accommodating portion and penetrates out through the sliding opening. A clamping space is formed by the first and second clamping portions. A pressing space is formed by the first and second pressing portions. Both ends of the extension spring are fixed at the first and second accommodating portions. The first and second pressing portions are pressed toward each other such that the pressing space decreases and the clamping space increases. The first and second pressing portions are released, thereby due to a tensile force, the pressing space increases and the clamping space decreases.
US11075653B2
Embodiments of this application provide a polar code encoding and decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an information bit set from a polar code construction sequence table based on an information bit length and a target code length of to-be-encoded information, where the polar code construction sequence table stores a mapping relationship between an encoding parameter and a construction sequence corresponding to the encoding parameter, the construction sequence is a sequence representing an order of reliability of polarized channels, and the encoding parameter includes at least one of an aggregation level, the target code length, and a mother code length, or the encoding parameter is a maximum mother code length; and performing polarization encoding on the to-be-encoded information based on the to-be-encoded information and the information bit set.
US11075649B2
Disclosed are a communication scheme and a system thereof for converging IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a high data transmission rate beyond that of a 4G system. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, services related to a smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security, and safety) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. A decoding method includes: performing decoding through an inner code; detecting an error through an outer code; determining a re-encoding method; and performing re-encoding. A method for processing a signal includes decoding a first layer signal to determine first LDPC information bits, encoding the first LDPC information bits and a first parity bits to determine second parity bits; identifying a part of the first LDPC information bits, and decoding a second layer signal.
US11075648B2
A seemingly monolithic interface between separate integrated circuit die may appear to be parallel or asynchronous from the perspective of the separate integrated circuit die. The signals of the seemingly monolithic interface, however, may actually be communicated between the separate die via serial and/or synchronous communication. In one method, a number of signals stored in a first parallel interface on a first integrated circuit die may be sampled. In some cases, at least one of the signals may be sampled more often than another one of the signals. A serial signal may be generated based on sampled signals. The serial signal may be transmitted to a corresponding second parallel interface on the second integrated circuit die.
US11075646B2
A delta-sigma (Σ-Δ) modulator and method for reducing nonlinear error and gain error. The Σ-Δmodulator includes: a plurality of sampling capacitors, configured to sample an input voltage or simultaneously sample an input voltage and a reference voltage signal; an operational amplifier; a plurality of switches, configured to select to sample the input voltage and the reference voltage signal; an integrating capacitor, configured to perform integration superposition on the input voltage and the reference voltage signal sampled by the sampling capacitors; and a control assembly, configured to control, to select to sample the reference voltage signal or simultaneously sample the input voltage and the reference voltage signal within a cycle, and to perform clock control on the sampling capacitors that simultaneously sample the input voltage and the reference voltage signal within a next cycle.
US11075644B2
A method is described that is performed by a calibration system. The method includes determining a set of perturbation values for configuring an analog-to-digital converter of the calibration system; generating a set of digital test values for determining the accuracy of the analog-to-digital converter; and applying the set of perturbation values to the set of digital test values to generate a set of modified test values, wherein the set of perturbation values are digital values that are applied to the set of digital test values in the digital domain.
US11075634B2
A switching operation sensing apparatus includes an input operation unit, an oscillation circuit, a frequency digital converter, and a touch detection circuit. The input operation unit includes a first switching member integrally formed with a housing. The oscillation circuit is configured to generate an oscillation signal having a resonant frequency, varying based on a capacitive change or an inductive change, depending on a touch input member in contact with the first switching member during an input operation. The frequency digital converter is configured to convert the oscillation signal into a count value. The touch detection circuit is configured to detect capacitive sensing and inductive sensing based on a slope change of the count value received from the frequency digital converter, and output corresponding touch detection signals of different levels based on the detection.
US11075633B2
A proximity sensor, and a portable device equipped therewith, with at least two superposed sense electrodes, one partially screening the other. By reading the capacity first of one electrode, then of the other, while setting the potential of the counter-electrode either to ground or to guard, the sensor of the invention discriminates between a body part, or another electrically equivalent object, and water drops at closer distance.
US11075632B2
An oscillating sensor device, particularly for a proximity sensor, for sensing a dynamic change of attenuation caused by a measurable physical effect includes an oscillator including a resonance circuit and an amplifier fed back to the resonance circuit and configured to maintain oscillation of the oscillator, and a control unit configured to control the open loop gain of the oscillator. The amplifier comprises a non-linear gain characteristics defining an operating point at a preset amplitude of oscillation. The control unit is configured to control the open loop gain of the oscillator so that the operating point is set to a preset amplitude of the oscillation.
US11075629B2
In an embodiment, a digital output driver circuit comprises an output stage having first and second transistors. A drive stage is configured to drive control terminals of the first and second transistors and comprising switching circuitry and current generator circuitry. In a first configuration, the driver circuit is configured to connect a control terminal of the second transistor to the reference node to turn off the second transistor; and connect a first capacitance to the current generator circuitry and to a control terminal of the first transistor to turn on the first transistor. In a second configuration, the driver circuit is configured to turn off the first transistor and connect the control terminal of the second transistor to the current generator circuitry and to the second capacitance to turn on the second transistor.
US11075612B2
A phase shifter unit cell or a connected set of such cells that can be well isolated from external circuitry and which do not introduce insertion loss into an RF signal path, exhibit good return loss, and further provides additional advantages when combined with bracketing attenuator circuits. More particularly, embodiments integrate a high-isolation function within a phase shifter circuit by breaking the complimentary nature of the control signals to a phase shifter cell to provide greater control of switch states internal to the phase shifter cell and thus enable a distinct high-isolation state, and by including a switchable shunt termination resistor for use in the high-isolation state. Some embodiments are serially coupled to attenuator circuits to enable synergistic interaction that reduces overall die size and/or increases isolation. One such embodiment positions a high-isolation phase shifter cell in accordance with the present invention between bracketing programmable attenuators.
US11075609B2
A method or apparatus for delivering audio programming such as music to listeners may include identifying, capturing and applying a listener's audiometric profile to transform audio content so that the listener hears the content similarly to how the content was originally heard by a creative producer of the content. An audio testing tool may be implemented as software application to identify and capture the listener's audiometric profile. A signal processor may operate an algorithm used for processing source audio content, obtaining an identity and an audiometric reference profile of the creative producer from metadata associated with the content. The signal processor may then provide audio output based on a difference between the listener's and creative producer's audiometric profiles.
US11075599B2
A brushless motor includes: a motor rotor; a stator coil section which has a plurality of energization phases, which includes a first stator coil and a second stator coil that are provided to each phase, and which is arranged to generate a magnetic field, and thereby rotate the motor rotor; and a connection switching section configured to switch a connection of the first stator coil and the second stator coil from a serial connection to a parallel connection, or from the parallel connection to the serial connection.
US11075595B2
The present disclosure relates to an axial flux motor comprising a stator and a rotor. The stator comprises a first motor coil, a second motor coil, a first hall sensor, and a second hall sensor, and the rotor comprises a rotor platform member, an actuator magnet array arranged in an alternating axial polarity arrangement, a trigger magnet array, and a rotating magnetic return path member.
US11075593B2
An inertial piezoelectric actuator driven by symmetrical sawtooth wave is symmetrical in structure and includes a seat, a slider, a piezoelectric stack and an elliptical ring. A pair of leaf-shaped flexible beams are arranged at a front end of a base, and a guide rail is connected between the pair of leaf-shaped flexible beams. The slider is placed on the guide rail. The piezoelectric stack is arranged in the elliptical ring with an interference fit. A front end of the elliptical ring is in contact with the guide rail, and a pre-stressed contact force between the elliptical ring and the guide rail is controlled by adjusting a screw at a rear end of the elliptical ring. A method for method for actuating bi-directional motion of the inertial piezoelectric actuator is further provided.
US11075592B2
A vibrating type actuator which hardly causes a failure and can suppress occurrence of abnormal noise while not preventing vibration from being excited in a vibrator. The vibrating type actuator comprises a vibrator in which vibration is excited, and a contact body which is in contact with the vibrator, wherein the vibrator and the contact body move relatively to each other. The vibrating type actuator comprises a holding member which holds the vibrator, a pressurizing member which pressurizes the vibrator against the contact body, a support member which movably supports the holding member in a pressurizing direction, in which the pressurizing member performs pressurization, and an vibration damping member which is in contact with the holding member at a plurality of portions while sandwiching the holding member in a direction orthogonal to the pressurizing direction.
US11075587B2
An MMC converter linked to a HVDC system and a sub-module constituting the MMC converter are proposed. The sub-module includes: first and second power semiconductor switches connected in series in the same direction, each including a semiconductor switch and a diode connected in anti-parallel to the semiconductor switch; a capacitor connected in parallel to the first and second power semiconductor switches connected together in series; a first terminal connected to a first node between the first and second power semiconductor switches; a second terminal connected to a second node between the second power semiconductor switch and the capacitor; third and fourth power semiconductor switches connected in series in opposite directions between the first and second terminals, each including a semiconductor switch and a diode connected in anti-parallel to the semiconductor switch; and a third terminal connected to a third node between the third and fourth power semiconductor switches.
US11075584B2
A switch detection circuit is provided that senses the voltage on a rectifying component for rectifying a secondary winding current through a secondary winding of a flyback converter's transformer to determine whether a power switch transistor attached to a primary winding of the transformer has ceased cycling.
US11075581B2
Methods and apparatus to use a switched-mode power supply as a source of power in a service pack are disclosed. An example power system includes: an engine; a generator configured to generate electrical power from mechanical power delivered by the engine; a switched-mode power supply configured to convert the electrical power from the generator to output power; and control circuitry configured to: when an output load of the switched-mode power supply is a power system load, control the switched-mode power supply to provide the output power for output to the power system load; and when the output load of the switched-mode power supply is a vehicle load, control the switched-mode power supply to provide the output power for output to a vehicle electrical system connected to a vehicle energy storage device.
US11075569B2
A method of engaging wire ends of a stator assembly. The method involves advancing multiple fingers radially inwardly toward the wire ends, and rotating the fingers. The fingers have protrusions that engage the wire ends. A tooling assembly for engaging the wire ends has a first plate, a second plate, and has the fingers. The first plate has slots, and the second plate has teeth. The fingers have pins that ride in the slots of the first plate, and the fingers have teeth that mesh with the teeth of the second plate.
US11075566B2
An electric motor having a rotor having permanent magnets and a first gear arranged on an inner surface of the rotor, a stator having electromagnetic coils wound around sections of the rotor, a shaft arranged to be rotatably supported in the electric motor, the shaft having a second gear arranged on an outer surface of the shaft, and at least one rotary gear member arranged in a space between the first gear and the second gear. A number of the permanent magnets is the same as a number of the electromagnetic coils, and both the permanent magnets and the electromaqnetic coils are evenly spaced apart in a circumferential manner. The rotor further having a plurality of non-magnetic sections positioned between the plurality of permanent magnets to form an outermost layer of the rotor.
US11075560B2
A stator of a rotary electric machine comprises a stator core and a stator coil that is wound around the stator core. The stator coil includes a first segment coil, a second segment coil, and a first connecting member that has a first fitting recess portion at a first end of the first connecting member and a second fitting recess portion at a second end of the first connecting member, the first connecting member connecting the first segment coil and the second segment coil by fitting the first segment coil into the first fitting recess portion and by fitting the second segment coil into the second fitting recess portion.
US11075558B2
A bus bar unit includes a bus bar holder, a U-phase bus bar group, a V-phase bus bar group, and a W-phase bus bar group each including a first layer bus bar located on one side of the bus bar holder in an axial direction and extending along a plane perpendicular to the axial direction, a second layer bus bar located on one side of the first layer bus bar in the axial direction and extending along the plane perpendicular to the axial direction, and an external connection terminal connected to the first layer bus bar and the second layer bus bar and extending from the first layer bus bar and the second layer bus bar toward one side in the axial direction. The first and second layer bus bars of each of the U-phase bus bar group, the V-phase bus bar group, and the W-phase bus bar group extend to opposite sides from each other in a circumferential direction from the external connection terminal connected thereto.
US11075549B2
Systems and methods are described for receiving wireless power and providing wired power. In some embodiments, a predictive phase estimation apparatus comprises a transceiver module configured to receive a plurality of beaconing signals from a wireless client during a beacon cycle. The predictive phase estimation apparatus also comprises a phase compensation module configured to store the received plurality of beaconing signals, a phase predictor module is coupled to the transceiver module and configured to calculate predictive phases based on the received plurality of beaconing signals and based on beaconing signals received from the wireless client prior to the beacon cycle, and a signal converter coupled to the transceiver module. The signal converter is configured to form transmission signals based on the predictive phases and supply the transmission signals to the transceiver module. The transceiver module also transmits the transmission signals for delivery of wireless power to the wireless client.
US11075540B2
In a first power feeding mode, a controller supplies AC power output by an inverter to a load. In a second power feeding mode, the controller supplies AC power supplied from an AC power supply to the load. The controller switches an operation mode to the first power feeding mode when a voltage drop of the AC power supply is detected during the second power feeding mode. The controller, for a prescribed time period from detection of the voltage drop, causes a converter to perform reverse conversion to convert DC power output by a power storage device to AC power, and controls the reverse conversion in the converter such that an instantaneous value of an AC voltage output from the converter becomes equal to or higher than an instantaneous value of an AC voltage output from the inverter.
US11075533B2
A lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material layer containing lithium iron phosphate, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer containing graphite, and an electrolyte including a lithium salt and a solvent including ethylene carbonate and diethyl carbonate between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. When the battery temperature of the lithium ion secondary battery or the temperature of an environment in which the lithium ion secondary battery is used is T and given temperatures are T1 and T2 (T1
US11075531B2
Embodiments herein describe methods and systems for controlling the power state of a tool. A tool is placed into an active mode upon initial power up, as typically indicated by one or more indicators. The tool is automatically placed into an inactive mode upon the expiration of a timer, if the tool motor was not activated. If the tool is activated, such as by pressing the tool switch, prior to expiration of the timer, the timer resets. A display is provided to signal the user as to the current active status and/or current mode of the tool.
US11075527B2
A portable charger system provides two charger ports with different charging characteristics. Two devices having different charging characteristics may be coupled to the two charger ports to be charged simultaneously.
US11075524B2
A method and battery charger for charging two or more batteries includes a pulse generator, a detector and a processor communicably coupled to the pulse generator and the detector. A charging series time period, a charging time period and a rest time period are determined based on one or more battery parameters using the processor and the detector. The charging time period is approximately equal to the charging series time period divided by the number of batteries and the rest time period is approximately equal to the charging series time period minus the charging time period. A charging pulse group having a positive pulse for the charging time period and a rest period for the rest time period is generated using the pulse generator, and sequentially applied to each of the batteries. The battery parameters are monitored and the charging pulse group may be adjusted.
US11075518B2
A solar array power generation system includes a solar array electrically connected to a control system. The solar array has a plurality of solar modules, each module having at least one DC/DC converter for converting the raw panel output to an optimized high voltage, low current output. In a thither embodiment, each DC/DC converter requires a signal to enable power output of the solar modules.
US11075517B2
Disclosed is a rapid short-circuit protection circuit of charger at output end. With the short-circuit protection circuit adopted at an output end of a battery charger, MOS switch transistors in a battery power supply circuit may not burn out when an output end VOUT of the battery charger is short-circuited, and thus a good short-circuit protection effect is rendered.
US11075513B2
A circuit breaker is proposed, comprising a live line and a neutral line and a semiconductor switching unit located in the live line, the circuit breaker further comprises a bypass line, which is connected in parallel to the semiconductor switching unit, with a first mechanical switch and a second mechanical switch located in the bypass line, with the first mechanical switch connected in series to the second mechanical switch, whereby the semiconductor switching unit, the first mechanical switch and the second mechanical switch are controlled by a processing unit of the circuit breaker, which is embodied to send a first opening command to the first mechanical switch in case of a short-circuit-detection, and sending a second opening command to the second mechanical switch a time-delay after sending of the first opening command.
US11075498B2
A method of fabricating an optoelectronic component within a silicon-on-insulator substrate, the method comprising: providing a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, the SOI substrate comprising a silicon base layer, a buried oxide (BOX) layer on top of the base layer, and a silicon device layer on top of the BOX layer; etching a first cavity region into the SOI substrate and etching a second cavity region into the SOI substrate, the first cavity region having a first depth and the second cavity region having a second depth, the second depth being greater than the first depth; depositing a multistack epi layer into the first and the second cavity regions simultaneously, the multistack epi layer comprising a first multistack portion comprising a first active region and a second multistack portion comprising a second active region.
US11075488B2
A dielectric member for controlling impedance for use in an electrical connector. The dielectric member including a housing made of dielectric material and a dielectric rib. The dielectric rib extends from a conductor receiving end of the housing in a direction away from a mating end. The rib is spaced equidistant from each of the conductor receiving openings. The rib extends in a direction which is essentially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the housing. Conductor engaging surfaces are provided on the rib, with a first conductor engaging surface of the conductor engaging surfaces being opposed to a second conductor engaging surface of the conductor engaging surfaces. The first conductor engaging surface and the second conductor engaging surface are spaced apart a distance, wherein the impedance of the conductors proximate the rib is approximately the same as the impedance of the cable.
US11075478B2
A connector for connecting a cable and a circuit board is disclosed. The connector includes an upper cover plate, a lower plate body and an auxiliary member. Through the combination of the upper cover plate and the lower plate body, the cable can be held in an accommodation space therebetween. When an external force is applied to the upper cover plate, the upper cover plate will be unlocked to form an angle between the upper cover plate and the lower plate body, and then the holding member locking the cable is deformed to release the cable.
US11075470B2
A wire harness that includes a first wire and a second wire each including a core wire and a covering material that covers the core wire; and a tube, wherein: the tube covers a connection between the core wire of the first wire and the core wire of the second wire, each of the covering materials contains a cross-linked polyethylene, the tube contains a cross-linked polyethylene, the tube and each of the covering materials are directly joined, and a tensile shear strength between the tube and each of the covering materials is 350 kPa or more.
US11075469B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion configured to be movable such that the second portion is capable of being folded with respect to the first portion, a first array antenna disposed at the first portion and including a first antenna element and a second antenna element, a second array antenna including a third antenna element and a fourth antenna element, and disposed at the second portion such that the third antenna element is aligned with the first antenna element and the fourth antenna element is aligned with the second antenna element when the electronic device is in a folded state in which the second portion of the housing is folded with respect to the first portion by using the third portion, a communication circuit electrically connected to the first array antenna and the second array antenna, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor may be configured to: determine whether the electronic device is in an unfolded state or a folded state based on the second portion being in the unfolded state or folded state with respect to the first portion by using the third portion, when the electronic device is in the unfolded state, form a first beam through the first antenna element and the second antenna element or a second beam through the third antenna element and the fourth antenna element by using the communication circuit, and when the electronic device is in the folded state, form a third beam through the first antenna element and the third antenna element or a fourth beam through the second antenna element and the fourth antenna element by using the communication circuit.
US11075467B2
The present disclosure relates to two-dimensional antennas and network devices. One example antenna includes a reflection panel, at least two antenna arrays, at least one common feeding network, and at least two array feeding networks. The at least two antenna arrays are on the reflection panel. Each antenna array comprises at least one independent radiation unit and at least one common radiation unit. Each antenna array corresponds to an array feeding network of the at least two array feeding networks. Each independent radiation unit in each antenna array is connected to a particular array feeding network corresponding to the particular antenna array. Each common radiation unit in each antenna array is connected to the at least one common feeding network. The at least one common feeding network is connected to the at least two array feeding networks corresponding to the at least two antenna arrays.
US11075466B2
Parabolic reflector antennas advantageously support low side lobe radiation patterns for ETSI class 4 performance, by utilizing: (i) metal choke plates adjacent a distal end of a dielectric cone within a sub-reflector assembly, (ii) “lossy” material feed boom waveguide sleeves and/or (iii) extended length cylindrical shields lined with radiation absorbing materials. Relatively shallow and large diameter parabolic reflectors having an F/D ratio of greater than about 0.25 may be provided with one or more of the identified (i)-(iii) enhancements.
US11075451B2
An antenna device can include: an antenna substrate, on which an array antenna including at least one radiation element is arranged; and a cover spaced apart from the antenna substrate at at least a predetermined distance and further including at least one relay radiation element arranged to correspond to the at least one radiation element.
US11075444B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that includes a front surface, a rear surface facing away from the front surface, and a side surface surrounding a space between the front surface and the rear surface, wherein the front surface includes a dielectric substance having a first permittivity and the rear surface includes a dielectric substance having a second permittivity, an antenna array that is positioned adjacent to the side surface, radiates a millimeter wave signal, the antenna array including at least one antenna element, a communication circuit that is electrically connected with the antenna array and communicates by using the millimeter wave signal, and an electrical element that is positioned to be spaced from the antenna array by a specified distance such that a radiation pattern of the millimeter wave signal radiated from the antenna array has a directivity toward the side surface.
US11075443B2
An electronic device including an antenna is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing for rotatably combining with the first housing, at least one hinge assembly configured to at least partially include an electric conductor portion, the at least one hinge assembly for rotatably coupling the second housing to the first housing, and at least one antenna device coupled to the at least one hinge assembly, in which the at least one antenna device includes a radiating conductor pattern and a ground patch, and the ground patch is electrically connected to the electric conductor portion of the at least one hinge assembly.
US11075438B2
An RFID-enabled storage container and systems and methods for assembly and use thereof. The RFID-enabled storage container may include adjustable shelving with built-in antennas, such that the shelving may be customized as may be needed. The system may include a storage container, an inventory management system, and one or more point of use terminals. The storage container may identify and check inventory stored thereon, and provide such information to the inventory management system. The storage container may notify the inventory management system when a product is no longer detected within its inventory, and the inventory management system may monitor the one or more point of use terminals to determine if the undetected product has been used at one of the point of use terminals. The inventory management system may also predict inventory needs as well as maintain age and other data for inventory and provide feedback via an illumination indication.
US11075436B2
An RF joint rotating about an axis of rotation (Z) includes a number N, greater than or equal to 1, of RF transmission channels, a first, internal surface of symmetry of revolution about the axis (Z) and of RF transmission having a first, internal radius r1, and a second, external surface of symmetry of revolution about the axis (Z) and of RF transmission having a second, external radius r2, strictly less than the first, internal radius r1. The first and second RF transmission surfaces facing one another and rotationally mobile about the axis (Z) are configured through the first and second radii r1, r2, the geometry of the first and second RF access ports, and the geometry of the first and second RF containment and guidance means, such that: each RF transmission channel Vi, i varying from 1 to N, comprises a first RF rotating waveguide, and the N first RF rotating waveguides are distributed angularly over a predetermined number NC, greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N, of sections of surfaces of revolution about the axis (Z) of the second RF transmission surface, each of the NC sections being situated along the longitudinal axis of symmetry (Z) at a predetermined different level L1(k).
US11075427B2
A secondary battery including: an electrode assembly; a case accommodating the electrode assembly; and a cap assembly coupled to the case. The cap assembly includes: a cap-up exposed at a top of the cap assembly; a safety vent under the cap-up; and a reinforcement plate between the cap-up and the safety vent and extending along a periphery of the cap-up. The safety vent includes a protrusion protruding toward the electrode assembly and is electrically connected to the electrode assembly via the protrusion.
US11075426B2
Provided is a battery pack, and more particularly, a battery pack capable of preventing degradation of performance at a low temperature by allowing a portion of air exhausted through an exhaust port to be introduced into an inhalation port to optimize a temperature of external air introduced into a cell module.
US11075417B2
There is provided a battery cooling control system capable of efficiently and effectively controlling the cooling of a battery. While an electric powered vehicle travels and/or stops, it is determined whether or not there is an indication of a battery being charged, and if it has been determined that there is the indication of charging being performed, it is determined whether or not there is a necessity for cooling the battery, and if it has been determined that there is the necessity for cooling the battery, the battery is cooled to a predetermined value during traveling. In addition, based on at least a state of charge of the battery and/or a driving range, it is determined whether or not there is an indication of charging being executed, and based on a real-time battery temperature, an increase in battery temperature caused by charging, and an upper limit value for a predetermined allowable battery temperature range, it is determined whether or not there is a necessity for cooling the battery.
US11075414B2
A battery cooling control device includes a power storage device management portion that detects a temperature of a power storage device, an electronic control portion that changes over a traveling mode of a vehicle between an EV traveling mode and an HEV traveling mode, and based on a detection result of the power storage device management portion, outputs a cooling start instruction and a cooling stop instruction, and a cooling system that starts cooling the power storage device in response to a receiving of the cooling start instruction and stop cooling the power storage device in response to a receiving of the cooling stop instruction. The electronic control portion changes set values of the cooling start temperature and the cooling stop temperature in accordance with whether the traveling mode is the EV traveling mode or the HEV traveling mode.
US11075397B2
The bipolar secondary battery includes a power generation element including unit power generation elements stacked together and including bipolar electrodes stacked via separators, and current collecting plates arranged at both ends of the power generation element in the stacked direction of the unit power generation elements so as to be in contact with the power generation element, wherein the current collecting plates each include an electrically conductive layer and a resin film, the electrically conductive layer being formed on the resin film having a thermal shrinkage percentage of 2% or greater at a temperature of 150° C., and the separators have a higher thermal shrinkage start temperature than the resin films.
US11075391B2
A method for preparing a modular planar interconnect plate for a solid oxide fuel cell includes the steps of: (a) providing a metal blank sheet, (b) stamping a main region of the metal blank sheet to form a plurality of columns of upper protrusions on an upper surface of the main region of the metal blank sheet and a plurality of columns of lower depressions on a lower surface of the main region of the metal blank sheet, and (c) stamping the main region of the metal blank sheet to forma plurality of rows of lower protrusions on a lower surface of the main region of the metal blank sheet and a plurality of rows of upper depressions on the upper surface of the main region of the metal blank sheet.
US11075386B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector, an intermediate layer, and a positive electrode active material layer. The intermediate layer is interposed between the positive electrode current collector and the positive electrode active material layer. The intermediate layer contains at least carboxymethylcellulose, a conductive material, and an inorganic filler.
US11075382B2
The invention is directed towards a cathode. The cathode includes an electrochemically active cathode material and at least one cathode additive. The at least one cathode additive includes a head group and at least one hydrocarbon tail group. The head group includes at least one p-element atom that is bonded to a second p-element atom. The at least one p-element atom has an electronegativity and the second p-element atom has an electronegativity. The electronegativity of the at least one p-element atom is different from the electronegativity of the second p-element atom.
US11075377B2
A lithium electrochemical cell with increased energy density is described. The electrochemical cell comprises an improved sandwich cathode design with a second cathode active material of a relatively high energy density but of a relatively low rate capability sandwiched between two current collectors and with a first cathode active material having a relatively low energy density but of a relatively high rate capability in contact with the opposite sides of the two current collectors. In addition, a cathode fabrication process is described that increases manufacturing efficiency. The cathode fabrication process comprises a process in which first and second cathode active materials are directly applied to opposite surfaces of a perforated current collector and laminated together. The present cathode design is useful for powering an implantable medical device requiring a high rate discharge application.
US11075376B1
Compositions, anodes, and batteries are described herein and incorporate particulates that feature carbon matrices having embedded therein a plurality of amorphous silicon nanoparticles. One embodiment includes a particulate composed of a porous carbon matrix and a plurality of amorphous silicon nanoparticles affixed to an interior surface of the porous carbon matrix and adjacent to an open volume that defines specific pores. Yet another embodiment is an anode active particulate that features a plurality of amorphous silicon nanoparticles affixed to interior surfaces of a porous carbon matrix, where the anode active particulate has a “Standard-FCE” value that is about 5% greater than a “Standard-FCE” value of an analogous anode active particle having crystalline silicon nanocrystals.
US11075372B2
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a novel active material whose volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material having a composition represented by NaxMySi46, wherein M is a metal element other than Na, x and y satisfy 0
US11075371B2
A negative electrode for an electrochemical cell of a secondary lithium metal battery may comprise a metal substrate, a lithium metal layer overlying a major surface of the metal substrate, and a protective interfacial layer formed on a major surface of the lithium metal layer over the metal substrate. The protective interfacial layer may comprise a stack of monomolecular layers including at least one aryl siloxane monomolecular layer overlying the major surface of the lithium metal layer. The protective interfacial layer may be formed on the major surface of the lithium metal layer by applying a mixture of monoaryl silanes to the major surface of the lithium metal layer.
US11075361B2
An organic EL device includes an active region including a plurality of organic EL elements and a peripheral region in a region other than the active region. The organic EL device includes an element substrate including a substrate supporting the organic EL elements; and a thin film encapsulation structure covering the organic EL elements and including a first inorganic barrier layer, an organic barrier layer in contact with a top surface of the first inorganic barrier layer, and a second inorganic barrier layer in contact with the top surface of the first inorganic barrier layer and a top surface of the organic barrier layer. The peripheral region includes a first protruding structure including a portion extending along at least one side of the active region, the first protruding structure supported by the substrate, and an extending portion, of the first inorganic barrier layer, extending onto the first protruding structure.
US11075355B2
A light-emitting unit (140) is formed over a first surface (102) of a substrate (100). A first terminal (112) and a second terminal (132) are formed on the first surface (102) of the substrate (100), and are electrically connected to the light-emitting unit (140). A sealing layer (200) is formed over the first surface (102) of the substrate (100), and seals the light-emitting unit (140). In addition, the sealing layer (200) does not cover the first terminal (112) and the second terminal (132). A cover layer (210) is formed over the sealing layer (200), and is formed of a material different from that of the cover layer (210). In at least a portion of a region located next to the first terminal (112) and a region located next to the second terminal (132), a portion of an end of the cover layer (210) protrudes from the sealing layer (200).
US11075350B2
According to some embodiments of the present invention, a method of producing an organic-inorganic perovskite thin film includes depositing a layer of inorganic material on a substrate to form an inorganic film, and performing an organic vapor treatment of the inorganic film to produce an organic-inorganic perovskite thin film. The layer of inorganic material comprises an inorganic anion layer having a metal-ligand framework, and the organic vapor treatment provides organic cations capable of becoming inserted into the metal-ligand framework of the inorganic anion layer to form a perovskite structure.
US11075346B2
The present invention relates to organic light-emitting devices comprising (a) an anode, (i) a cathode, and (e) an emitting layer between the anode and cathode, comprising 2 to 40% by weight of a luminescent organometallic complex X having a difference of the singlet energy (ES1(X)) and the triplet energy (ET1(X)) of of ≤0.3 eV [Δ(ES1(X))−(ET1(X))≤0.3], 0.05 to 5.0% by weight of a fluorescent emitter Y and 55 to 97.95% by weight of a host compound(s), wherein the amount of the organometallic complex X, the fluorescent emitter Y and the host compound(s) adds up to a total of 100% by weight and the singlet energy of the luminescent organometallic complex X (ES1(X)) is greater than the singlet energy of the fluorescent emitter Y (ES1(Y)) [(ES1(X))>ES1(Y)]. By doping, for example, an emitting layer containing a luminescent organometallic complex having a small S1-T1 splitting, with a fluorescent emitter the emission decay time can significantly be shortened without sacrificing external quantum efficiency (EQE) because of very efficient energy transfer.
US11075336B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) cell structure is formed. The MRAM cell structure includes a bottom electrode, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack and a top electrode. A first insulating cover layer is formed over the MRAM cell structure. A second insulating cover layer is formed over the first insulating cover layer. An interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed. A contact opening in the ILD layer is formed, thereby exposing the second insulating cover layer. A part of the second insulating cover layer and a part of the first insulating cover layer are removed, thereby exposing the top electrode. A conductive layer is formed in the opening contacting the top electrode. The second insulating cover layer has an oxygen getter property.
US11075326B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a plurality of light emitting structures, an isolation layer covering side surfaces of the plurality of light emitting structures and insulating the plurality of light emitting structures from one another, a partition layer formed on the isolation layer, a first protective layer covering top surfaces of the plurality of light emitting structures and side walls of the partition layer, a reflective layer covering the first protective layer and disposed on the side walls of the partition layer, and a second protective layer covering the reflective layer.
US11075321B2
Exemplary embodiments provide a semiconductor device including: a semiconductor structure which includes a first-conductive-type semiconductor layer, a second-conductive-type semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first-conductive-type semiconductor layer and the second-conductive-type semiconductor layer, wherein the semiconductor structure has a first recess passing through the second-conductive-type semiconductor layer, the active layer and a first portion of the first-conductive-type semiconductor layer; and a plurality of second recesses passing through the second-conductive-type semiconductor layer, the active layer and a second portion of the first-conductive-type semiconductor layer, wherein the first recess is disposed along an outer surface of the semiconductor structure, wherein the plurality of second recesses are surrounded by the first recess.
US11075320B2
A method of manufacturing a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes: growing an n-side superlattice layer that includes InGaN layers and GaN layers; and, after the step of growing the n-side superlattice layer, growing a light-emitting layer. The step of growing the n-side superlattice layer comprises repeating a cycle n times (n is a number of repetition), the cycle including growing one InGaN layer and growing one GaN layer. In the step of growing the n-side superlattice layer, the step of growing one GaN layer in each cycle from a first cycle to an mth cycle is performed using carrier gas that contains N2 gas and does not contain H2 gas. The step of growing one GaN layer in each cycle from a (m+1)th cycle to an nth cycle is performed using gas containing H2 gas as the carrier gas.
US11075319B2
Several embodiments of semiconductor systems and associated methods of color corrections are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for producing a light emitting diode (LED) includes forming an (LED) on a substrate, measuring a base emission characteristic of the formed LED, and selecting a phosphor based on the measured base emission characteristic of the formed LED such that a combined emission from the LED and the phosphor at least approximates white light. The method further includes introducing the selected phosphor onto the LED via, for example, inkjet printing.
US11075317B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to silicon solar cells and more particularly to a doped layer formed on a textured surface of a silicon solar cell, and methods of fabricating the same. In one aspect, a method of creating a doped layer at a rear side of a crystalline silicon bifacial solar cell is disclosed. The method can include texturing at least a rear side of a silicon substrate of the solar cell to create a pattern of pyramids, thereby creating a pyramidal topology of the rear side. The method can also include forming a doped layer at the rear side by, using epitaxial growth, growing at least one doped silicon epitaxial layer on the pyramids. Simultaneously with forming the doped layer and by using facet evolution, the pyramidal topology of the rear side can be smoothed by the growth of the at least one epitaxial layer. The epitaxial growth can be continued until, on upper parts of a majority of the pyramids, an angle between a surface of the at least one epitaxial layer and the substrate is between 5 to 35°. A crystalline silicon bifacial solar cell is also disclosed.
US11075316B2
A method of producing a bifacial photovoltaic cell is disclosed herein, the method comprising: a) forming an n-dopant-containing layer on a first surface of a semiconductor substrate; b) forming a boron-containing layer on a second surface of the substrate by sputtering boron and/or by boron ion implantation; and c) effecting diffusion of the n-dopant and boron into the substrate, to dope the first surface with the n-dopant and the second surface with the boron. Further disclosed herein are bifacial photovoltaic cells, as well as photovoltaic modules, power plants and electric devices comprising said photovoltaic cells, comprising a semiconductor substrate, an n+ layer on a first surface thereof and a boron-containing p+ layer on a second surface thereof, wherein a variability of boron concentration in the p+ layer is no more than 5%.
US11075315B2
An optical semiconductor element includes a semiconductor substrate, a first laminated structure provided on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a second laminated structure provided on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, the first laminated structure includes a first quantum cascade region, the second laminated structure includes a dummy region having the same layer structure as the first quantum cascade region, a second quantum cascade region provided on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate via the dummy region, and one of the first quantum cascade region and the second quantum cascade region is a quantum cascade laser, and the other of the first quantum cascade region and the second quantum cascade region is a quantum cascade detector.
US11075312B2
A solar cell module includes solar cells having main surfaces to which inter-cell wiring members are connected, and an insulating member disposed on the main surfaces and the wiring members, and a first lead-out wire provided to the insulating member. The insulating member includes a first insulating layer formed of polyester resin, a second insulating layer formed of polyolefin or EVA and provided between the first insulating layer and the lead-out wires, and a third insulating layer formed of polyolefin or EVA and provided between the first insulating layer and the main surfaces. The third insulating layer has a thickness in a direction perpendicular to the main surfaces larger than a thickness of the second insulating layer.
US11075310B2
A light concentrating optic for use with a photovoltaic device includes a light pipe having a first end portion for receiving light and a second end portion for outputting concentrated light. An optical element is coupled to the light pipe on the first end portion and configured to form an optical interface between the light pipe and the optical element. The optical element includes at least one light transmitting surface configured to redirect incident light entering the optical element to disperse the light to fall incident on side walls of the light pipe to increase homogeneity and intensity of light through the second end portion.
US11075308B1
Intermediate temperature metallization pastes containing vanadium are disclosed. The metallization pastes can be used to fabricate electrodes interconnected to a transparent conductor.
US11075307B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of fabrication of an electro-optical device. A non-limiting example of the method relies on a waveguide. A trench is opened in the waveguide and a stack of optically active semiconductor materials is directly grown from a bottom wall of the trench and are stacked along a stacking direction that is perpendicular to a main plane of the waveguide. The stack is partly encapsulated in the waveguide, whereby a bottom layer of the stack is in direct contact with a waveguide core material, whereas upper portions of opposite, lateral sides of the stack are exposed. An insulating layer of material is deposited to cover exposed surfaces of the waveguide and structured to form a lateral growth template. Contact layers are laterally grown due to the lateral growth template formed. The contact layers can include an n-doped and p-doped contact layers.
US11075306B2
Implementations of semiconductor packages may include: a wafer having a first side and a second side, a solder pad coupled to the first side of the wafer, a through silicon via (TSV) extending from the second side of the wafer to the solder pad a metal layer around the walls of the TSV, and a low melting temperature solder in the TSV. The low melting temperature solder may also be coupled to the metal layer. The low melting temperature solder may couple to the solder pad through an opening in a base layer metal of the solder pad.
US11075304B1
A thin film transistor is disclosed. The thin-film transistor includes an active layer (3); a source electrode (1); and a drain electrode (2). The active layer includes an active pattern region (4), the active pattern region including a main body portion (5) and a plurality of protrusion portions (6) on both sides of the main body portion. The protrusion portions are connected to the main body portion.
US11075298B2
One illustrative integrated circuit product disclosed herein includes a gate structure positioned above a semiconductor substrate, a source region and a drain region, both of which include an epi semiconductor material, wherein at least a portion of the epi semiconductor material in the source and drain regions is positioned in the substrate. In this example, the IC product also includes an isolation structure positioned in the substrate between the source region and the drain region, wherein the isolation structure includes a channel-side edge and a drain-side edge, wherein the channel-side edge is positioned vertically below the gate structure and wherein a portion of the substrate laterally separates the isolation structure from the epi semiconductor material in the drain region.
US11075295B2
A metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor includes a wide bandgap substrate, a wide bandgap drift layer over the substrate, a number of junction implants in the drift layer, and a JFET region between the junction implants. The JFET region is defined by a JFET gap, which is the distance between adjacent ones of the junction implants. The JFET gap is not uniform throughout the MOSFET device. The JFET region is separated into a first JFET sub-region and a second JFET sub-region, such that a doping concentration in the first JFET sub-region is different from a doping concentration in the second JFET sub-region.
US11075292B2
An insulated gate bipolar transistor includes a substrate; a first conductivity type base disposed on the substrate and having a first trench; a first conductivity type buffer region disposed in the first conductivity type base; a collector doped region having a second conductivity type and disposed in the first conductivity type base; a second conductivity type base to which the first trench extends downwardly; a gate oxide layer disposed on an inner surface of the first trench; a polysilicon gate disposed inside the gate oxide layer; an emitter doped region having a first conductivity type and disposed in the second conductivity type base and under the first trench; a conductive plug extending downwardly from above the first trench and contacting the second conductivity type base; and an insulating oxide layer filled in the first trench, the insulating oxide layer insulating and isolating the polysilicon gate from the emitter doped region.
US11075285B2
An insulated gate power semiconductor device includes an (n-) doped drift layer between an emitter side and a collector side. A p doped protection pillow covers a trench bottom of a trench gate electrode. An n doped enhancement layer having a maximum enhancement layer doping concentration in an enhancement layer depth separates the base layer from the drift layer. An n doped plasma enhancement layer having a maximum plasma enhancement layer doping concentration covers an edge region between the protection pillow and the trench gate electrode. The N doping concentration decreases from the maximum enhancement layer doping concentration towards the plasma enhancement layer and the N doping concentration decreases from the maximum plasma enhancement layer doping concentration towards the enhancement layer such that the N doping concentration has a local doping concentration minimum between the enhancement layer and the plasma enhancement layer.
US11075275B2
Certain embodiments of a semiconductor device and a method of forming a semiconductor device comprise forming a high-k gate dielectric layer over a short channel semiconductor fin. A work function metal layer is formed over the high-k gate dielectric layer. A seamless metal fill layer is conformally formed over the work function metal layer.
US11075273B1
Embodiments of the invention include a method for fabricating a semiconductor device and the resulting structure. A stack of alternating nanosheets of sacrificial semiconductor material nanosheets and semiconductor material nanosheets located on a surface of a substrate are provided, wherein a sacrificial gate structure and a dielectric spacer material layer straddle over the nanosheet stack. End portions of each of the sacrificial semiconductor material nanosheets are recessed. A dielectric spacer is formed within each recess. Doped semiconductor portions are formed on the physically exposed sidewalls of each semiconductor material nanosheet and on the surface of the substrate. The semiconductor structure is thermally annealed. The sacrificial gate, each sacrificial semiconductor material nanosheet, and the dielectric spacer are each removed. A doped epitaxial material structure is formed in regions occupied by each sacrificial semiconductor material nanosheet, where the doped epitaxial material structure wraps around each suspended semiconductor material nanosheet.
US11075269B2
A semiconductor device, includes a channel region, and a source/drain region adjacent to the channel region. The source/drain region includes a first epitaxial layer, a second epitaxial layer epitaxially formed on the first epitaxial layer and a third epitaxial layer epitaxially formed on the second epitaxial layer, and the first epitaxial layer is made of SiAs.
US11075266B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same include forming a first dielectric layer around a semiconductor fin, formed from a first dielectric material, to a target height lower than a height of the semiconductor fin. A second dielectric layer is deposited on the first dielectric layer and is formed from a second dielectric material. A third dielectric layer, formed from the first dielectric material, is formed on the second dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is etched away to expose a gap on the semiconductor fin. A portion of the semiconductor fin that is exposed in the gap is oxidized to form an isolation layer.
US11075257B2
Provided is an electroluminescence display comprising a display panel where a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines are arranged. Each pixel comprises: a driving TFT that controls the current in a light-emitting element EL in response to a data voltage applied to a gate; and switching TFTs that supply a high-level power supply voltage to the driving TFT in response to a gate-on voltage of an emission signal and control signals applied to the source and drain of the driving TFT. The electroluminescence display switches between first and second modes, the first mode being a mode in which data writing and driving TFT characteristic compensation are performed within 1 horizontal period 1H by applying a data voltage to the gate of the driving TFT, and the second mode being a mode in which data writing is performed within the 1 horizontal period by applying an initial voltage to the gate of the driving TFT and applying the data voltage upon completion of the compensation of the driving TFT characteristics.
US11075253B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic light-emitting display device capable of preventing threshold voltage variation in a thin film transistor. In the organic light-emitting display device according to the present disclosure, an upper light-shielding layer overlying a pixel driving circuit which drives a light-emitting element is disposed on the same plane as an anode electrode and a bank is disposed to cover the sides of the upper light-shielding layer, and thus light input to the sides and the upper surface of an active layer can be blocked.
US11075240B2
A texture recognition assembly, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display apparatus are disclosed. The texture recognition assembly includes a photosensitive sensing layer, a texture contact layer, and a filter film layer disposed at a side of the photosensitive sensing layer proximate to the texture contact layer. The filter film layer is configured to filter visible light with a wavelength greater than or equal to λ. A value of λ is greater than or equal to 600 nm.
US11075238B2
A method of manufacturing an image sensor includes at least the following steps. A storage node is formed in a substrate. A gate dielectric layer, a storage gate electrode, and a first dielectric layer are sequentially formed over the substrate. A portion of the first dielectric layer is removed to form an opening. A protection layer and a shielding layer are sequentially filled into the opening. The protection layer laterally surrounds the shielding layer and at least a portion of the protection layer is located between the storage gate electrode and the shielding layer. A second dielectric layer is formed over the shielding layer.
US11075236B2
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus capable of improving the accuracy of phase difference detection while suppressing degradation of a picked-up image. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a pixel array unit, a plurality of pixels being two-dimensionally arranged in the pixel array unit, a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices being formed with respect to one on-chip lens in each of the plurality of pixels, a part of at least one of an inter-pixel separation unit formed between the plurality of pixels and an inter-pixel light blocking unit formed between the plurality of pixels protruding toward a center of the corresponding pixel in a projecting shape to form a projection portion. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a CMOS image sensor including a pixel for detecting the phase difference.
US11075235B2
An image sensor mounting base includes a substrate, and a first, a second, a third and a fourth electrode pad. The substrate has an upper surface including a first mount area where a first image sensor is mountable, and a second mount area where a second image sensor is mountable. The second mount area is spaced from the first mount area. The first and second electrode pads are located on the upper surface of the substrate and across the first mount area each other. The third and fourth electrode pads on the upper surface of the substrate are spaced from the first electrode pad and the second electrode pad and face each other across the second mount area. The substrate has, on the upper surface, a recess between the third electrode pad and the fourth electrode pad. The second mount area is located on a bottom of the recess.
US11075233B2
A semiconductor device and a fabricating method of the same are provided. The semiconductor device a substrate including an active region defined by an element isolation film, an impurity region having a first conductivity type in the active region, a first semiconductor film of a second conductivity type on the impurity region, a buried insulating film on the first semiconductor film, a second semiconductor film on the buried insulating film, and a well contact connected to the first semiconductor film. The level of a lowermost surface of the first semiconductor film is higher than a level of a lowermost surface of the element isolation film.
US11075232B2
A display device in which a peripheral circuit portion has high operation stability is provided. The display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A first insulating layer is provided over a first surface of the first substrate. A second insulating layer is provided over a first surface of the second substrate. The first surface of the first substrate and the first surface of the second substrate face each other. An adhesive layer is provided between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A protective film in contact with the first substrate, the first insulating layer, the adhesive layer, the second insulating layer, and the second substrate is formed in the vicinity of a peripheral portion of the first substrate and the second substrate.
US11075231B2
Provided is a display apparatus including a substrate and a semiconductor layer including first and second semiconductor layers. A first gate insulating layer is formed on the semiconductor layer. A first gate wiring overlapping the first semiconductor layer is formed on the first gate insulating layer. A second gate insulating layer is formed on the first gate wiring. A second gate wiring overlapping the second semiconductor layer is formed on the second gate insulating layer. A third gate insulating layer covers the second gate wiring. A driving voltage line intersecting the first and second gate wirings is formed on the third gate insulating layer. A data line intersecting the first and second gate wirings is formed on the third gate insulating layer. A short circuit protection area is formed between the first gate wiring, the second gate wiring, the driving voltage line and the data line.
US11075224B2
A display device includes a first substrate and a flexible circuit board. Data lines, scan lines, thin film transistors, gate contacts, and source contacts are disposed on the first substrate. The scan lines are intersected with the data lines. The thin film transistors are respectively connected to the data lines and the scan lines. The gate contacts are connected to the scan lines. The source contacts are connected to the data lines. The display device further includes first conductive patterns disposed on a side of the first substrate, and the first conductive patterns are connected to at least some of the gate contacts on the side of the first substrate. First pads of the flexible circuit board are connected to the first conductive patterns.
US11075223B2
A thin film transistor array panel includes a substrate, a first gate electrode disposed on the substrate, a voltage wire disposed on the substrate, a gate insulating layer disposed on the first gate electrode and the voltage wire, a semiconductor pattern including an oxide semiconductor material disposed on the gate insulating layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed at a distance from each other on the semiconductor pattern, a first passivation layer disposed on the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a first electrode disposed on the first passivation layer and connected with the voltage wire.
US11075219B2
In some embodiments, a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprise laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. Operative channel-material strings of memory cells extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. Insulative pillars are laterally-between and longitudinally-along immediately-laterally-adjacent of the memory blocks. The pillars comprise vertically-spaced and radially-projecting insulative rings in the conductive tiers as compared to the insulative tiers. Other embodiments, including methods, are disclosed.
US11075196B2
A heterostructure semiconductor device includes first and second active areas, each electrically isolated from one another, and each including first and second active layers with an electrical charge disposed therebetween. A power transistor is formed in the first active area, and an integrated gate resistor is formed in the second active area. A gate array laterally extends over the first active area of the power transistor. First and second ohmic contacts are respectively disposed at first and second lateral ends of the integrated gate resistor, the first and second ohmic contacts are electrically connected to the second portion of the second active layer, the second ohmic contact also being electrically connected to the gate array. A gate bus is electrically connected to the first ohmic contact.
US11075195B2
The disclosed circuit includes a first and a second active region (AR) spaced a spacing S along a direction in a first standard cell (SC) that spans Dl along the direction between a first and a second cell edge (CE). Each of the first and second ARs spans a first width W1 along the direction; a third and a fourth AR spaced S in a second SC that spans a second dimension Ds along the direction between a third and a fourth CE; and gate stacks extend from the fourth CE of the second SC to the first CE of the first SC, wherein Ds
US11075184B2
A semiconductor package has at least one die, a first redistribution layer and a second redistribution layer. The first redistribution layer includes a first dual damascene redistribution pattern having a first via portion and a first routing portion. The second redistribution layer is disposed on the first redistribution layer and over the first die and electrically connected with the first redistribution layer and the first die. The second redistribution layer includes a second dual damascene redistribution pattern having a second via portion and a second routing portion. A location of the second via portion is aligned with a location of first via portion.
US11075175B2
A semiconductor package includes a connection member including an insulating layer and a redistribution layer, a semiconductor chip disposed on the connection member, and an inductance sensing part having a coil form and electrically connected to the semiconductor chip.
US11075169B2
A method of forming an overlay alignment mark in the fabrication of integrated circuitry comprises forming a first series of periodically-horizontally-spaced lower first features on a substrate. A second series of periodically-horizontally-spaced upper second features is formed directly above the first series of the lower first features. Individual of the upper second features are directly above and cover at least a portion of individual of the lower first features in a first horizontal area of the substrate. Individual of the upper second features are not directly above and are not covering any portion of the individual lower first features in a second horizontal area of the substrate that is horizontally adjacent the first horizontal area. Other methods, and structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US11075167B2
A substrate is provided having a top side and a bottom side, having redistribution layers therein, having at least one copper pillar connected to the redistribution layers on the top side and at least one copper pillar connected to the redistribution layers on the bottom side, and having at least one cavity extending partially into the bottom side of the substrate. At least one passive component is mounted onto the copper pillar on the top side and embedded in a molding compound. At least one silicon die is mounted in the cavity wherein electrical connections are made between the at least one silicon die and the at least one passive component through the redistribution layers. At least one solder ball is mounted on the at least one copper pillar on the bottom side of the substrate to provide package output.
US11075164B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an active region, a first gate structure over a top surface of the substrate, a second gate structure over the top surface of the substrate, a pair of first spacers on each sidewall of the first gate structure, a pair of second spacers on each sidewall of the second gate structure, an insulating layer over at least the first gate structure, a first conductive feature over the active region and a second conductive feature over the substrate. Further, the second gate structure is adjacent to the first gate structure and a top surface of the first conductive feature is coplanar with a top surface of the second conductive feature.
US11075163B2
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed, including an apparatus with rows of vertical strings of memory cells coupled to a common source and multiple data lines associated with each row of vertical strings. Each data line associated with a row is coupled to at least one of the vertical strings in the row. Additional apparatuses and methods are described.
US11075160B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first wiring and a second wiring disposed at a first metal level, a third wiring and a fourth wiring disposed at a second metal level different from the first metal level, a first via which directly connects the first wiring and the third wiring, a fifth wiring disposed at a third metal level between the first metal level and the second metal level and connected to the second wiring, and a second via which directly connects the fourth wiring and the fifth wiring.
US11075148B2
A stacked assembly of semiconductor devices includes a mounting pad covering a first portion of a low-side semiconductor device, and a contact layer covering a second portion of the low-side semiconductor device. A first mounting clip electrically connected to the contact layer has a supporting portion joining the first mounting clip to a first lead frame portion. A second mounting clip attached to the mounting pad has a supporting portion joining the second mounting clip to a second lead frame portion. A high-side semiconductor device has a first terminal electrically connected to the first mounting clip and thereby to the contact layer, and a second terminal electrically connected to the second mounting clip.
US11075145B2
A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die, a bonding layer, and a through die via. The first semiconductor die includes a first semiconductor substrate and a first conductive pad exposed at an active surface of the first semiconductor die. The second semiconductor die includes a second semiconductor substrate and a second conductive pad exposed at an active surface of the second semiconductor die. The first semiconductor die is stacked over the second semiconductor die. The bonding layer is disposed between the first and the second semiconductor die. The through die via electrically connects the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die. The through die via is embedded in the first semiconductor substrate, penetrates through the first conductive pad and the bonding layer, and reaches the second conductive pad.
US11075144B2
Provided is a cooler having high cooling efficiency and low pressure loss of fluid. A cooler includes: a flow-channel part at least including a plate-like fin (top plate) and a plate-like fin (bottom plate); and a continuous groove-like flow channel defined between the top plate and the bottom plate to flow fluid, the cooler being configured to cool semiconductor elements. When the flow-channel part is viewed from the direction parallel to the top plate and intersecting the flow channel, the flow channel has a corrugated shape so that a face of the flow channel closer to the top plate and a face of the flow channel closer to the bottom plate bend in a synchronized manner toward the top plate and the bottom plate.
US11075141B2
An apparatus includes a module base configured to carry one or more devices to be cooled. The module base includes a cover and a heat sink connected to the cover. The cover includes first and second encapsulation layers and a thermal spreader between the encapsulation layers. The first encapsulation layer is configured to receive thermal energy from the device(s). The thermal spreader is configured to spread out at least some of the thermal energy and to provide the spread-out thermal energy to the second encapsulation layer. The heat sink is configured to receive the thermal energy through the second encapsulation layer and to transfer the thermal energy out of the module base. The first encapsulation layer includes multiple openings. The module base includes multiple tabs inserted through the openings. Each tab is configured to provide a thermal interface between at least one of the device(s) and the thermal spreader through the first encapsulation layer.
US11075136B2
A method of transferring heat in a package includes conducting heat from a first device to a second device by a low thermal resistance substrate path in a chip layer of the package, conducting heat from an integrated circuit (IC) to a first package layer of the package, conducting heat from the first package layer of the package to at least a first set of through-vias positioned in the chip layer, and conducting heat from the first set of through-vias to a surface of a second package layer opposite the chip layer. The first device and the second device is part of the IC chip. The first package layer is adjacent to the chip layer.
US11075135B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming a semiconductor structure are disclosed. A form of a method for forming a semiconductor structure includes: providing a base; patterning the base, to form a substrate and fins protruding out of the substrate, where each fin includes a bottom fin and a top fin located on the bottom fin, and in a direction perpendicular to an extension direction of each fin, a width of the top fin is less than a width of the bottom fin; and forming an isolation structure on the substrate exposed by a fin, where the isolation structure covers at least a sidewall of the bottom fin, and a top of the isolation structure is lower than a top of the fin. In the present disclosure, a bottom fin with a larger width is formed, to increase the volume of the bottom fin, and the area of a contact surface of the fin and the substrate, and to correspondingly enhance an effect of dissipating heat generated during working of a device to the substrate, thereby improving the heat dissipation performance of the device, and to correspondingly improving a self-heating effect of the device, so that the device performance is further improved.
US11075133B2
A method for forming an underfill structure and semiconductor packages including the underfill structure are disclosed. In an embodiment, the semiconductor package may include a package including an integrated circuit die; an interposer bonded to the integrated circuit die by a plurality of die connectors; and an encapsulant surrounding the integrated circuit die. The semiconductor package may further include a package substrate bonded to the interposer by a plurality of conductive connectors; a first underfill between the package and the package substrate, the first underfill having a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE); and a second underfill surrounding the first underfill, the second underfill having a second CTE less than the first CTE.
US11075132B2
An integrated fan-out package includes a first redistribution structure, a die, an encapsulant, a plurality of conductive structures, and a second redistribution structure. The first redistribution structure has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The die is disposed over the first surface of the first redistribution structure and is electrically connected to the first redistribution structure. The encapsulant encapsulates the die. The conductive structures are disposed on the first surface of the first redistribution structure and penetrates the encapsulant. The conductive structures surround the die. The second redistribution structure is disposed on the encapsulant and is electrically connected to the first redistribution structure through the conductive structures. The second redistribution structure includes at least one conductive pattern layer that is in physical contact with the encapsulant.
US11075130B2
Semiconductor packages including package substrates having polymer-derived ceramic cores are described. In an example, a package substrate includes a core layer including a polymer-derived ceramic. The polymer-derived ceramic may include filler particles to control shrinkage and reduce warpage of the core layer during fabrication and use of the package substrate. The core layer may include counterbores or blind holes to embed a contact pad or an electrical interconnect in the core layer. A semiconductor die may be mounted on the package substrate and may be electrically connected to the contact pad or the electrical interconnect.
US11075126B2
A misregistration metrology system useful in manufacturing semiconductor device wafers including an optical misregistration metrology tool configured to measure misregistration at at least one target between two layers of a semiconductor device which is selected from a batch of semiconductor device wafers which are intended to be identical, an electron beam misregistration metrology tool configured to measure misregistration at the at least one target between two layers of a semiconductor device which is selected from the batch and a combiner operative to combine outputs of the optical misregistration metrology tool and the electron beam misregistration metrology tool to provide a combined misregistration metric.
US11075124B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device with a profiled work-function metal gate electrode. The semiconductor structure includes a metal gate structure formed in an opening of an insulating layer. The metal gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer, a barrier layer, a work-function metal layer between the gate dielectric layer and the barrier layer and a work-function adjustment layer over the barrier layer, wherein the work-function metal has an ordered grain orientation. The present disclosure also provides a method of making a semiconductor device with a profiled work-function metal gate electrode.
US11075110B1
A method includes forming separate conductive trench structures in a trench and then removing an upper portion of one of the conductive structures where the remaining portion serves as field gate for a transistor. Removing the upper portion includes forming a second trench. The second trench is filled with a gate material that is used as a gate for the transistor. The transistor includes a source region for the transistor on the side of the trench and a drain region for the transistors on the other side of the trench, wherein the drain region includes a portion located at an upper portion of a semiconductor material. The transistor includes a channel region having a portion located along a sidewall of a trench.
US11075103B2
Implementations of a method for wafer alignment may include: providing a wafer having a first side and a second side and forming a seed layer on a second side of the wafer. The method may include applying a glop to the seed layer at two or more predetermined points and plating a metal layer over the seed layer and around the glop. The method may include removing the glop to expose the seed layer and etching the seed layer to expose a plurality of alignment features on the second side of the wafer.
US11075101B2
Each of first and second substrate transportation mechanisms transports a substrate for a FOUP placed not on, for example, each of two openers disposed laterally but on, for example, each of two openers disposed in an upward/downward direction. Thus, even if the number of openers increases, the substrate is transported not by sliding a hand capable of moving forward and backward, but by lifting, lowering, and rotating the hand. Thus, transportation of the substrate can be simplified. Accordingly, standby time of substrate transportation can be reduced, and a decrease in substrate transportation efficiency can be prevented.
US11075087B2
A method includes mounting a wafer on a chuck disposed within a chamber of an etching system, the wafer being encircled by a focus ring. While etching portions of the wafer, an etch direction is adjusted to a first desired etch direction by adjusting a vertical position of the focus ring relative to the wafer to a first desired vertical position. While etching portions of the wafer, the etch direction is adjusted to a second desired etch direction by adjusting the vertical position of the focus ring relative to the wafer to a second desired vertical position. The second desired vertical position is different from the first desired vertical position. The second desired etch direction is different from the first desired etch direction.
US11075069B2
An octa-electrode linear ion trap mass analyzer is formed by eight cylindrical electrodes and at least two end-cap electrodes. The inside surfaces of the eight cylindrical electrodes are free-form. The material of the octa-electrode linear ion trap mass analyzer is a conductive metal material or an insulating material plated with a conductive coating. The eight cylindrical electrodes are divided into four groups of cylindrical electrodes in total, each group of the four groups of cylindrical electrodes comprises two cylindrical electrodes, and each two groups of the four groups of cylindrical electrodes are parallelly placed. At least one through hole is provided with in the center of the end-cap electrode, and the two end-cap electrodes are respectively arranged at both ends of the cylindrical electrode.
US11075064B2
An amplification system includes a first amplification module, a second amplification module, a third amplification module I, a fourth amplification module I, a first load, a third amplification module II, a fourth amplification module II and a second load. An output terminal of the first amplification module is connected to an input terminal of the second amplification module; output terminals of the second amplification module are connected to an input terminal of the third amplification module I and an input terminal of the third amplification module II. An output terminal of the third amplification module I is connected to an input terminal of the first load through the fourth amplification module I. An output terminal of the third amplification module II is connected to an input terminal of the second load through the fourth amplification module II.
US11075054B2
A cell for use in a microscope has a pair of dies, the dies defining: a pair of slit-shaped windows disposed on opposite surfaces of the cell and arranged in perpendicular and spaced relation to one another to define a viewable volume interiorly of the cell at the region of overlap; a flow channel which includes the viewable volume and overlies and is substantially coterminous with one of the pair of slit-shaped windows; an elongate channel defined between the dies and leading towards the flow channel; and a conduit defined between the dies and coupling the elongate channel to the flow channel.
US11075050B2
Miniature slow-wave transmission lines are described having an asymmetrical ground configuration. In some embodiments, the asymmetrical ground configuration facilitates a reduction in size. Non-uniform auxiliary conductors may be disposed above or below the co-planar waveguide to facilitate a reduction in the length of the miniature slow-wave transmission lines. Phase shifters may be implemented having a reduced size by including one or more miniature slow-wave transmission lines.
US11075043B2
A method for controlling switchgear includes the implementation of a limitation of the intensity value of the power supply current of a coil of an actuator, including acquisition of a power supply current limit value; generation of a reference value representative of the power supply current limit value; acquisition of a signal representative of the intensity of the power supply current circulating through the coil; comparison of the reference signal with the signal representative of the intensity of the power supply current; inhibition of the current power supply of the coil, as long as the intensity of the power supply current has a value greater than or equal to the reference value, the current power supply of the coil being re-established when the intensity of the power supply current returns below the reference value.
US11075028B2
An impact actuator with 2-degree of freedom, which may generate an impact stimulation in any direction on the plane, includes a body having a magnetic substance that is movable therein, one upper solenoid attached to an upper portion of the body, and three or more lower solenoids attached to a lower portion of the body, wherein the upper solenoid and the three or more lower solenoids are independently supplied with AC power from a power supply, respectively.
US11075027B1
A permanent magnet assembly for generating a homogenous and intense magnetic field includes can be adjusted for both transverse and axial gradients after completed assembly while field inhomogeneity is being measured. Gaps between pole piece bodies and pole tips are adjustable to adjust the transverse and axial gradients in a space between the pole tips.
US11075019B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and a method for producing a radiopharmaceutical, wherein the system is formed from and/or provides a microfluidic flow system. In certain embodiments, the system comprises a radioisotope isolation module, a radiopharmaceutical production module, a purification module and a quality control module.
US11075017B2
The modular lower moving system for nuclear fuel handling includes: a lower reactor vessel assembly including nuclear fuel loaded therein; a carrier having a space allowing the lower reactor vessel assembly to be accommodated therein; a rail extending from a reactor area to a fuel handling area; a transfer cart horizontally movable along the rail; a lifting device installed at the transfer cart, movable upward or downward with respect to the transfer cart; and a drive device configured to supply power to the transfer cart and the lifting device. The method of refueling nuclear fuel using the modular lower moving system includes a carrier lifting process, a lower reactor vessel assembly detachment process, a process of accommodating the lower reactor vessel assembly in the carrier, a carrier lowering process, a transfer cart movement process, a nuclear fuel offloading process, and a nuclear fuel loading process.
US11075016B2
A nuclear reactor is positioned on a barge which is floating in a water tank. A plurality of counter weight assemblies interconnect the barge with the tank to create a lifting force to the barge and to maintain the barge in a level position. Structure is also included for limiting horizontal movement of the counter weight of the counter weight assemblies.
US11075015B2
A reflector assembly for a molten chloride fast reactor (MCFR) includes a support structure with a substantially cylindrical base plate, a substantially cylindrical top plate, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced ribs extending between the base plate and the top plate. The support structure is configured to encapsulate a reactor core for containing nuclear fuel. The MCFR also includes a plurality of tube members disposed within the support structure and extending axially between the top plate and the bottom plate. The plurality of tube members are configured to hold at least one reflector material to reflect fission born neutrons back to a center of the reactor core.
US11075014B2
A fuel assembly for a nuclear water reactor having an upstream end, a downstream end, and a flow interspace between the upstream and downstream ends. Fuel rods are provided in the flow interspace between the upstream and downstream ends. The flow interspace permits a flow of coolant through the fuel assembly along a flow direction from the upstream end to the downstream end. A filter device is provided to catch debris particles in the flow of coolant. The filter device has a first filter zone for a major part of the flow of coolant, and a second filter zone for a minor part of the flow of coolant. The first filter zone has a first filtering efficiency and the second filter zone has a second filtering efficiency. The second filtering efficiency is higher than the first filtering efficiency.
US11075012B2
Configuration output for use in configuring a patient care device for administration of a therapy to a patient. The configuration output may include at least one code. The code may be used in the verification and/or indication of at least one configuration data component used in the configuration of the patient care device to be used to administer a therapy to a patient. Additionally, a check code for validation of the entry of the code and/or check code may be provided.
US11074997B2
A multi-modal encrypted messaging platform to provide HIPAA compliant messaging and interfaces to provide access to electronic data records. The proposed invention discloses example embodiments that comprise a server-system, a client device in communication with the server-system, and an auxiliary device coupled to the client device.
US11074988B2
Apparatus and methods for debugging on a host and memory device include an example apparatus comprising a memory device having an array of memory cells. Sensing circuitry is coupled to the array. The sensing circuitry includes a sense amplifier and a compute component configured to perform logical operations on the memory device. A controller is coupled to the array and sensing circuitry, the controller is configured to control performance of the logical operations. An interface is configured to receive a debugging indication and to cause the controller to halt a logical operation on the memory device.
US11074981B2
An integrated circuit device includes channel structures extending from a substrate in a vertical direction, memory cell strings disposed along the plurality of channel structures, gate lines spaced apart from one another in the vertical direction and including erase control lines and string selection lines, and driving transistors including erase control driving transistors connected to the erase control lines and string selection driving transistors connected to the string selection lines.
US11074979B2
The erase voltage controlled with higher accuracy than the related art when erasing data in a non-volatile semiconductor memory device is provided. An control circuit for controlling an erase voltage includes: a slope adjustment circuit that controls a slope having a step shape by controlling a step voltage, a target voltage, and a step width of the erase voltage. The slope adjustment circuit repeatedly increases the erase voltage by the step voltage for each predetermined clock pulse control signal to the target voltage based on the step voltage and the target voltage, and outputs the clock pulse control signal to the erase voltage generation circuit by repeatedly clocking each time interval corresponding to the step width based on the step width.
US11074975B1
A non-volatile register is provided. The non-volatile register includes a plurality of cell strings with respect to a plurality of bit lines, wherein each cell string includes a plurality of cells. Each word line is respectively connecting to a gate of one cell for each cell string to correspondingly form a page. The pages are configured into: a central page used as a register to store registered data; and a plurality of dummy pages at both sides of the central page. The dummy pages are controlled to provide a boosted channel voltage to a portion of memory cells of the central page, not being programmed. A source selection transistor is connected to a first side for each cell string. A drain selection transistor is connected to a second side for each cell string.
US11074972B2
A semiconductor circuit of the present disclosure includes: a first circuit that is configured to apply an inverted voltage of a voltage at a first node to a second node; a second circuit that is configured to apply an inverted voltage of a voltage at the second node to the first node; a first transistor that is configured to couple the first node to a third node to which a first memory element is coupled; a second transistor having a drain coupled to the third node and a gate coupled to a first predetermined node; a third transistor having a drain coupled to the third node and a gate coupled to a second predetermined node; a fourth transistor that is configured to couple the second node to a fourth node to which a second memory element is coupled; a fifth transistor having a drain coupled to the fourth node and a gate coupled to the second predetermined node; and a sixth transistor having a drain coupled to the fourth node and a gate coupled to the first predetermined node.
US11074969B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a data storage circuit and a control circuit. The data storage circuit holds first data to be written into the memory cell and holds 1 bit data calculated from the first data. The control circuit writes the data of n bits into the memory cell in a first write operation and then executes a second write operation. The control circuit carries out the following control in the second write operation. It reads data stored in the memory cell in the first write operation. It restores the first data based on the data read from the memory cell and the 1 bit data held in the data storage circuit. It writes the restored first data into the memory cell.
US11074965B2
A memory device is disclosed, in which node contacts extend into a substrate, where they are come into electrical connection with active areas. This allows greater contact areas between the node contacts and the active areas and electrical connection of the node contacts with high ion concentration portions of the active areas. As a result, even when voids are formed in the node contacts, the node contacts can still possess desired connection performance. For node contacts allowed to contain voids, this enables them to be fabricated faster with lower difficulty, thus increasing manufacturing throughput of the memory device.
US11074964B1
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a first digit line coupled with SENSE AMPLIFIER circuitry. The first digit line has a first region distal from the SENSE AMPLIFIER circuitry. A second digit line is coupled with the SENSE AMPLIFIER circuitry and has a second region distal from the SENSE AMPLIFIER circuitry. PRECHARGE circuitry includes one or more first equalization transistors proximate the first and second regions, and includes a second equalization transistor proximate the SENSE AMPLIFIER circuitry. Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a first digit line coupled with SENSE AMPLIFIER circuitry. The first digit line has a first region distal from the SENSE AMPLIFIER circuitry. A second digit line is coupled with the SENSE AMPLIFIER circuitry and has a second region distal from the SENSE AMPLIFIER circuitry. PRECHARGE circuitry includes an electrical connection coupling the first and second regions to one another.
US11074960B2
The disclosed embodiments describe methods, devices, and computer-readable media for protecting the integrity of volatile memory devices. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising detecting a power interrupt condition of a memory device; and executing at least one operation in response to detecting the power interrupt condition, the operation selected from the group of operations consisting of: placing the memory device in a pre-charge mode, pausing a self-refresh mode of the memory device, forcing the memory device into a reset mode, or rewriting data in the memory device.
US11074955B2
Methods, systems, and devices for cell voltage accumulation discharge are described. One or more sections of a bank of ferroelectric memory cells may be coupled with one or more access lines. By activating one or more switching components, one or more sections (that may include a memory array and/or a driver) of memory cells may be isolated. When isolated, a voltage may be applied across an access line associated with the section to activate an access device of each memory cell. By activating a switching component of a respective memory cell, a capacitor of the memory cell may be discharged and then the isolated section may be coupled with the plurality of access lines.
US11074953B2
The operation speed of a semiconductor device is improved. The semiconductor device includes a first memory region and a second memory region; in the semiconductor device, a first memory cell in the first memory region is superior to a second memory cell in the second memory region in data retention characteristics such as a large storage capacitance or a large channel length-channel width ratio (L/W) of a transistor. When the semiconductor device is used as a cache memory or a main memory device of a processor, the first memory region mainly stores a start-up routine and is not used as a work region for arithmetic operation, and the second memory region is used as a work region for arithmetic operation. The first memory region becomes an accessible region when the processor is booted, and the first memory region becomes an inaccessible region when the processor is in normal operation.
US11074952B1
A dual in-line memory module (DIMM) includes memory devices arranged to be accessed via at least one memory channel. The DIMM further includes an array of surface contact connections each configured to be engaged with an associated contact element of a z-axis compression connector. The array of surface contact connections are arranged to conduct signals for the memory channels.
US11074947B2
A semiconductor memory apparatus includes a plurality of memory dies and a logic die, which are stacked to each other. The logic die includes a memory interface for a memory apparatus to be coupled to the semiconductor memory apparatus, and a switch coupled to a plurality of channels included in a control device which controls the semiconductor memory apparatus. The switch includes a first switch element which couples one of the plurality of channels to the memory interface or one of the plurality of memory dies, and a second switch element which couples another one of the plurality of channels to another one of the plurality of memory dies. Even if some memory dies are defective, the semiconductor memory apparatus is capable to operate.
US11074939B1
Provided is a method for disambiguating an audio component extracted from audiovisual content. Audiovisual content is identified. The audiovisual content includes an audio component and a video component. An ambiguous expression is detected in the audio component. An object referenced by the ambiguous expression is identified in the video component. A verbal description of the object is generated. The verbal description is injected into the audio component to generate a modified audio component.
US11074921B2
The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that enable reduction of an amount of data to be transmitted in transmission of data of a plurality of audio objects. An information processing device according to one aspect of the present technology combines audio objects with sounds that are undistinguishable at a predetermined supposed listening position among a plurality of audio objects for the predetermined supposed listening position among a plurality of supposed listening positions and transmits data of a combined audio object obtained by the combination, along with data of other audio objects with sounds that are distinguishable at the predetermined supposed listening position. The present technology can be applied to a device that can process object-based audio data.
US11074919B2
In encoding, a frequency-domain sample sequence derived from an acoustic signal is divided by a weighted envelope and is then divided by a gain, the result obtained is quantized, and each sample is variable-length encoded. The error between the sample before quantization and the sample after quantization is quantized with information saved in this variable-length encoding. This quantization is performed under a rule that specifies, according to the number of saved bits, samples whose errors are to be quantized. In decoding, variable-length codes in an input sequence of codes are decoded to obtain a frequency-domain sample sequence; an error signal is further decoded under a rule that depends on the number of bits of the variable-length codes; and from the obtained sample sequence, the original sample sequence is obtained according to supplementary information.
US11074918B2
A real-time agreement comprehension tool is described. Initially, a user is selected as a signing party to an agreement. A document deployment system enables a computing device associated with the user to access the agreement. The computing device presents the agreement via a display device for digital signing by the user. While the agreement is presented, a voice assistant platform obtains a query from the user about at least a portion of the agreement. Responsive to the query, an agreement comprehension tool of the computing device determines an answer to the query by processing a limited set of documents that are relevant to the portion of the agreement. This limited set of documents includes a corpus of documents corresponding to the authoring organization and previous agreements with which the signing user has interacted. The agreement comprehension tool then causes the answer to be presented for display and/or audibly output.
US11074916B2
The present disclosure provides an information processing system and an information processing method capable of auditing the utterance data of an agent more flexibly. In one example, an information processing system includes: a storage section that stores utterance data of an agent; a communication section that receives request information transmitted from a client terminal and requesting utterance data of a specific agent from a user; and a control section that, when the request information is received through the communication section, replies to the client terminal with corresponding utterance data, and in accordance with feedback from the user with respect to the utterance data, updates an utterance probability level expressing a probability that the specific agent will utter utterance content indicated by the utterance data, and records the updated utterance probability level in association with the specific agent and the utterance content in the storage section.
US11074913B2
Various embodiments are provided for understanding user sentiment in a dialog system in a computing environment by a processor. A sentiment of a user may be detected according to a sentiment analysis and user feedback during a dialog with the user. One or more reasons for the sentiment of the user may be identified. Behavior of the dialog system may be adjusted according to the one or more reasons.
US11074909B2
Provided are a device for recognizing a speech input including a named entity from a user and an operating method thereof. The device is configured to: generate a weighted finite state transducer model by using a vocabulary list including a plurality of named entities; obtain a first string from a speech input received from a user, by using a first decoding model; obtain a second string by using a second decoding model that uses the weighted finite state transducer model, the second string including a word sequence, which corresponds to at least one named entity, and an unrecognized word sequence not identified as a named entity; and output a text corresponding to the speech input by substituting the unrecognized word sequence of the second string with a word sequence included in the first string.
US11074907B1
Techniques for generating a prompt coverage score, which measures an extent to which data output to a user during a dialog is repetitive and monotonous, are described. User input data and system output, corresponding to a dialog exchange between a user and a skill, may be determined. A portion of the system output data, corresponding to a system prompt representing default output data, may be determined. A first number, representing possible variants of the prompt, may be determined along with a second number, representing variants of the prompt output during the dialog exchange. A prompt coverage score may be determined based on the first and second numbers.
US11074901B2
A unit cell of an artificial phononic crystal for building of an artificial phononic metamaterial, showing reduced mechanical vibrations in a defined frequency range with at least one band gap in the band structure dispersion relation of the unit cell. The unit cell includes at least one building block and at least one mechanical connection connected to the building block, showing reduced mechanical vibrations in a defined frequency range with tailored dispersion properties with at least one band gap is sought. This is accomplished by forming the building block as a toroid, with a central opening and a front surface from which a first multiplicity of struts, which are tiltable relatively to the principal direction, is extending from the front surface. More than one strut is inclined with respect to the principal direction so that a rotation of the toroid around the principal direction is possible.
US11074900B2
The present invention is a thermal and acoustic insulating sphere that has an evacuated hollow interior. The spheres are constructed of insulating materials, and the inner and outer surfaces of each sphere have highly reflective coatings evenly applied to them. The coatings applied to the inner and outer surfaces reduce the transmission of heat by conduction, convection, and radiation. Additionally, the spheres provide superior acoustic insulation due to the inability of sound to travel through the interior vacuum. The spheres can be used to produce insulating materials, for example, by embedding or positioning them within or between other materials, to provide thermal and acoustic insulation.
US11074888B2
An image data processing method and apparatus, an image display method and apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium and a display device. The image data processing method includes: obtaining initial image data of a to-be-displayed image, wherein each pixel in the to-be-displayed image comprises a white sub-pixel and a plurality of color sub-pixels; determining a target stimulus value corresponding to each pixel based on the initial image data, wherein the target stimulus value corresponding to each pixel is negatively correlated with color saturation of each pixel; and updating the initial image data to obtain target image data, wherein a stimulus value of the white sub-pixel of each pixel in the target image data is the target stimulus value corresponding to each pixel.
US11074884B1
A control circuit and a display panel applied by the control circuit are provided. The control circuit includes a plurality of stages of shift registers, wherein each of the shift registers includes a first switch, wherein a control terminal of the first switch is configured to receive a first control signal, a first terminal of the first switch is configured to receive the first control signal, and a second terminal of the first switch is electrically coupled to a first node; a second switch, wherein a control terminal of the second switch is electrically coupled to the first node, a first terminal of the second switch is configured to receive a first clock signal, and a second terminal of the second switch is configured to receive a second control signal.
US11074866B2
The light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area including a plurality of pixel areas and a non-display area surrounding the display area, a plurality of gate lines passing through the display area of the substrate, a plurality of data lines passing through the display area of the substrate, a plurality of pixel driving power lines passing through the display area of the substrate, a plurality of pixels respectively provided in the plurality of pixel areas of the substrate and connected to an adjacent gate line, an adjacent data line, and an adjacent pixel driving power line, and a gate buffer provided in the display area of the substrate and connected to a corresponding gate line of the plurality of gate lines.
US11074833B2
A vasculature simulation device includes an aortic conduit having an inner bore corresponding to a human aorta, a first femoral conduit and a second femoral conduit having an inner bore of a diameter corresponding to a human femoral artery and disposed in fluid communication with the second end of the aortic conduit, and a return conduit in fluid receiving communication with the second end of the aortic conduit. A fluid pump is in fluid receiving communication with the return conduit and is also in fluid providing communication with the first end of the aortic conduit. An access site formed of a penetrable material is disposed adjacent to the first femoral conduit.
US11074830B1
A game for assessing and developing emotional intelligence where the game may comprise: at least one selector configured to indicate one of a plurality of emotions; and a plurality of images wherein each image represents an emotional situation and wherein the one emotion indicated by the at least one selector is assignable to one of the plurality of emotions.
US11074826B2
Described herein are to frameworks and methodologies configured to enable real-time adaptive delivery of skills training data based on monitoring of user performance data. Embodiments of the invention have been particularly to enable real-time control over a performance instruction user interface (for example in terms of rate), and/or control over delivery of media data (for example in terms of rate and/or pan/zoom position).
US11074825B2
A distance learning device for providing laboratory instruction via two-way interaction with a student at a remote location and system for using same.
US11074822B2
A drone defense system (DDS) beacon detects unmanned aerial systems (UAS) traffic and transmits a broadcast signal over a transmission region indicating a no-fly zone in which only UAS having an authorization are allowed to fly. The beacon allows UAS with clearance to enter the no-fly zone. Those UAS without clearance are diverted around the no-fly zone, denied Wi-Fi and/or RF connection, forced to return to home launch sites via activation of standard preprogrammed Return to Home (RTH) routines, or forced to land at specified locations where they may be captured. Military, emergency medical services (EMS), and other UAS are allowed to enter no-fly zones in which other UAS, such as commercial, or consumer UAS, cannot enter. DDS cloud collects and stores log data from all deployed DDS beacons. DDS cloud can send system software updates to DDS beacons, make real-time statistical analysis, and provide report data to outside systems.
US11074817B2
A driving support apparatus mounted on a vehicle, performing a driving support control includes: other vehicle determining unit that determines whether the other vehicle moves towards a present lane where the own vehicle runs from an adjacent lane; an acquiring unit that acquires a tip end lateral position of other vehicle in the present lane side, among lateral positions of the other vehicle in a direction perpendicular to a travelling direction of the own vehicle; an object determination unit that determines, based on a movement or a predicted movement of the tip end lateral position into the present lane from the adjacent lane, the other vehicle to be an object of a driving support control, and determining, based on no-movement of the tip end lateral position, the other vehicle not to be an object of a driving support control.
US11074816B2
An information providing system includes an onboard device and a server that transmits information to and receives information from the onboard device. The onboard device includes a condition setting unit that acquires a destination and an output mode and transmits the acquired destination and the acquired output mode to the server. The onboard device further includes an output unit that outputs parking lot recommendation information which is received from the server. The server includes a storage unit that stores parking lot information including position information of parking lots and parking fees which are detected from a captured image of the parking lots. The server further includes an information providing unit that prioritizes parking lots which are located within a predetermined range from the destination based on the output mode provides the parking lot information of the prioritized parking lots as the parking lot recommendation information to the onboard device.
US11074812B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided to reduce redundant data uploads, the method includes, for example, providing a collection indicator for a specific data type on a given road. The method further includes separating a plurality of data points for the specific data type collected during travel of a vehicle along the given road into a transmission group of data points and a non-transmission group of data points. The separating of the plurality of data points may be done by determining an amount of data points to be included in the transmission group by applying the collection indicator to the plurality of data points for the specific data type that are collected during travel of the vehicle along the given road. The method still further includes causing the transmission of the transmission group of data points.
US11074804B2
A security device includes a housing, a digital camera, an electronic storage medium, and a communication module. The digital camera is coupled to the housing and is configured to capture data. The electronic storage medium is coupled to the digital camera such that the electronic storage medium is configured to store the captured data therein. The communication module is configured to transmit the captured data according to an ordered sequence of data transmissions in response to the occurrence of a triggering event, the ordered sequence including (i) a first transmission of captured data including data captured prior to the triggering event, and (ii) a second transmission of captured data including data captured subsequent to the triggering event.
US11074792B2
A plurality of mobile communications devices (121) are distributed within a defined environment (120), which may be a hospital, correctional facility, school, public building, or private building. The locations of the mobile communications devices (121) within the defined environment (120) are precisely determined using a network of beacons (122) having known fixed locations within the defined environment (120). The mobile communications devices (121) communicate with the fixed beacons (122) using any suitable wireless protocol, such as the Bluetooth protocol. In preferred embodiments, each beacon (122) knows its precise location within the defined environment (120) by assigning x and y coordinates to the beacon (122) on a site map of the defined embodiment (120). In preferred embodiments, each mobile communications device (121) comprises a processor configured to monitor inputs relating to mental health, safety, and/or wellness from a plurality of reporting devices (123) that are also situated within the defined environment (120). At least one of these inputs can comprise a floor plan or map of the defined environment (120), whereby the mobile communications device (121) is enabled to send the floor plan or map to at least one receiver (124) situated outside the confines of the defined environment (120). First responders have access to said receiver (124).
US11074790B2
A doorbell system may project an illumination on a surface. The doorbell may include a housing, a button, a camera, a microphone, a speaker, a motion detector, and a light source. In some embodiments, the doorbell includes at least one lens coupled to a bottom surface of the housing adjacent the light source. The at least one lens may be configured to allow light from the light source to pass through the at least one lens such that when the electronic doorbell is attached to a building the light source projects an illumination onto a ground surface in front of the doorbell.
US11074786B2
The present disclosure relates generally to computational devices and, in particular, toward a computational device, system, and method of operating a computational device. The method may include determining that a predetermined mirror symbol has landed within a predetermined symbol area and then repositioning symbols within an array of symbols according to a mirror operation.
US11074773B1
The present disclosure generally relates to a system and method for enabling on-demand, temporary storage of an autonomous vehicle in vehicle storage areas of existing infrastructures. The vehicle storage areas include one or more movable barrier operators configured to control access to the vehicle storage areas via movable barriers. An autonomous vehicle access control platform is configured to enable access to individual ones of the vehicle storage areas by a single-use access credential sent to at least one of the autonomous vehicle and one of the movable barrier operators. The autonomous vehicle access control platform communicates with a transportation-as-a-service (TaaS) platform that pairs an autonomous vehicle with a vehicle storage area for storage based at least on a factor or parameter including the location of the vehicle storage area relative to the autonomous vehicle.
US11074772B2
A wirelessly-controlled fingerprint protected container containing a fingerprint scanner, a micro-computer, and a lock where the user can either unlock the device through the fingerprint scanner or platform (application) on the mobile device. The container can be shared with additional users by the owner sending an authorization code to another user via a smart device, and the second user can then wirelessly register his or her fingerprints and then unlock the container.
US11074771B2
A method of dynamically changing a mode of advertising for at least one of a multiple of access controls, including transmitting advertisements from an access control at a nominal mode; and changing the nominal mode in response to a pre-set schedule.
US11074762B2
A method of directly modifying ray tracing samples generated by a ray tracing renderer. Modifications to samples may be made after rendering and before rasterizing, in contrast to typical compositing workflows that manipulate pixels of a rasterized image. Modifications may be based on user input. Rasterization may be performed afterwards at any desired resolutions, for example to adapt to different displays. Samples may be tagged with object identities, facilitating object selection without the need for object masks. Pseudo-random ray patterns typically used by renderers may be supported directly. Many operations may be performed directly on samples, including color changes, object repositioning, and merging of samples from different scenes. Secure samples with scrambled ray directions may be modified directly. Modified samples may be compressed for storage or transmission, and may be streamed to receiving devices that rasterize the samples for display, possibly after decompressing or decrypting the received streams.
US11074756B1
A method of providing an image to be displayed includes providing captured scene data representing one or more images of a real scene and providing illumination data representing real illumination impinging on the real scene, providing a virtual reality image of a theoretical object by modeling said theoretical object using said illumination data to define illumination impinging on the theoretical object, and providing a combined image including elements of the real scene based on said captured scene data and including said virtual reality image.
US11074753B2
A device for performing multi-pass object rendering using a three-dimensional geometric constraint may include at least one processor configured to receive a mesh of points corresponding to a head of a user. The at least one processor may be further configured to render an image of a sphere and to render elements corresponding to facial features based at least in part on the mesh of points. The at least one processor may be further configured to render an element visibility mask based at least in part on the mesh of points, the element visibility mask being constrained to the surface of the sphere. The at least one processor may be further configured to composite the sphere, the elements, and the element visibility mask to generate an output image. The at least one processor may be further configured to provide the output image for display.
US11074742B2
An image processing apparatus 200 includes: a first saturation information obtaining unit 306 configured to obtain saturation of a frame image; a second saturation information obtaining unit 309 configured to obtain saturation of a background image; and a threshold value determining unit 311 configured to determine a threshold value, which is used for checking a difference in color information, for each pixel, based on the saturation obtained by each of the first saturation information obtaining unit 306 and the second saturation information obtaining unit 309. A hue foreground area estimating unit 312 is configured to estimate a foreground area by use of the threshold value determined by the threshold value determining unit 311 as well as color information of the frame image and color information of the background image.
US11074730B1
An augmented reality (AR) diagnostic tool embodied as a software application on a portable device employs AR infrastructure to enable a user to locate a failed/malfunctioning node of a cluster and, with minimal interaction, diagnose causes and provide recommendations to repair the node. The portable device may be a computer embodied as visualization technology and configured to execute the software application. Once installed, the AR diagnostic (ARD) tool is ready for use by the user, e.g., a customer service technician, to locate and repair one or more failed cluster nodes. In response to a failure/malfunction, the cluster node sends diagnostic and configuration information (i.e., failure/malfunction information) of the failed node to an analytics service. The failure information informs the technician of the cluster failure. The technician may then activate the ARD tool and AR infrastructure to locate and repair the failed node.
US11074726B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for automatically mitigating overlapping labels associated with pie charts. In particular, the techniques involve migrating positions of the labels in response to adjustments of the pie chart to ensure that the labels are distributed in a non-overlapping, uniform, and aesthetically-pleasing manner.
US11074725B2
A computer-implemented method includes: determining an intensity of a visual effect to be applied to a user interface element; adjusting the intensity of the visual effect based on a characteristic feature of a background area; and rendering the user interface element based on the adjusted intensity of the visual effect.
US11074724B2
Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to create a distance field within a Graphics Processing Unit. This allows distance fields to be used in real time environments rather than having to be pre-calculated offline. Distance fields can be stored in a channel of a texture. To calculate the distance field, information that describes a shape are evaluated and shape segments that define the shape are created. A bounding box is created for each segment. For each pixel in each bounding box, the distance to the segment is calculated to create segment distance fields. For segments modeled with straight lines and quadratic segments, closed form solutions that can be implemented in the GPU are used. The individual segment distance fields are combined to form an overall shape distance field. A signed distance field is created by determining the inside and outside of the shape and adjusting distance field values appropriately.
US11074693B2
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, which transmits an ultrasonic wave toward a subject by an ultrasound probe, produces ultrasound image data based on obtained reception data by a diagnostic apparatus body, and displays an ultrasound image, includes a dilation processor which performs dilation processing on the ultrasound image data based on a dilation radius to produce dilated image data, an erosion processor which performs erosion processing on the ultrasound image data based on an erosion radius different in magnitude from the dilation radius to produce eroded image data, a difference processor which calculates difference between the dilated image data and the eroded image data to produce difference image data, and an edge enhancer which performs edge enhancement processing on the ultrasound image data based on the difference image data to produce edge enhanced image data.
US11074689B2
A medical image processing device includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to: acquire a real image acquired by imaging of an observation target; execute cut-out processing of generating a cut-out image by cutting out at least a part of a three-dimensional image that is based on plural tomographic images having the observation target captured therein; execute shade and shadow processing of adding shade or a shadow to the cut-out image, based on illumination condition information indicating an illumination condition for the observation target in the imaging of the real image; and execute superimposition processing of generating a superimposed image by superimposing the cut-out image that has been subjected to the shade and shadow processing, on the real image.
US11074685B2
A method for localizing an intracranial electrode in a subject's brain is provided. The intracranial electrode has at least one electrode contact. The method includes: acquiring a first brain image reconstructed from first image data acquired after electrode-implantation; acquiring a second brain image reconstructed from second image data acquired before the electrode-implantation; co-registering the first brain image and the second brain image to acquire spatial transformation parameters; extracting a first coordinate of the electrode contact from the first brain image; converting the first coordinate into a second coordinate in the second brain image by using the spatial transformation parameters; co-registering the second brain image and a universal brain atlas to define functional zones in the second brain image; and defining a corresponding functional zone where the second coordinate is located. Another alternative method and a system for localizing an intracranial electrode are also provided herein.
US11074675B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for generating texture models for objects within a video stream. The systems and methods access a set of images as the set of images are being captured at a computing device. The systems and methods determine, within a portion of the set of images, an area of interest containing an eye and extract an iris area from the area of interest. The systems and methods segment a sclera area within the area of interest and generate a texture for the eye based on the iris area and the sclera area.
US11074670B2
An image processing apparatus designates a first partial region for a first image obtained by rendering a configuration of an object in accordance with a predetermined coordinate system, designates a second partial region corresponding to the first partial region for a second image including an image obtained by capturing the object, and converts an image of the second partial region into an image complying with the predetermined coordinate system based on a coordinate of the first partial region in the first image and a coordinate of the second partial region in the second image. In the designation of the first partial region, different first partial regions in the first image are sequentially designated, and a first partial region at a (k+1)-th time based on a first partial region designated at a k-th time.
US11074669B2
A method for deriving further and additional pictures from an original picture, for Artificial Intelligence (AI) training purposes, is applied in a device. The device establishes an original picture set and sets the original pictures as a training picture set for AI training. The original pictures are rotated or flipped or both to obtain amplification pictures. The original pictures are annotated, and each of the amplification pictures is annotated according to a preset conversion rule. The original pictures, the amplification pictures, the annotated original pictures, and the annotated amplification pictures are stored, for inclusion in the AI training picture set.
US11074667B1
Methods, systems, and devices for fast partial scalarization are described. A device may generate a representation of a set of vectors and a set of vector instructions associated with the set of vectors. The device may determine information associated with a vector in the set of vectors based on the representation, the information including an indication of splitting the vector and splitting one or more vector instructions associated with the vector. In some aspects, the device may associate the vector to one or more other vectors in the set of vectors based on one or more vector instructions related to the set of vectors. The device may update the information based on the associating and generate partially scalarized instructions based on the updating. The device may generate the partially scalarized instructions by excluding a subset of vector instructions and generating additional subsets of vector instructions and scalar instructions.
US11074660B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for financial planning based on actual cash positions for financial accounts associated with an entity and planned cash out and cash in amounts for the entity. In an embodiment, a system comprises a processor configured to render an interactive graphical user interface (“GUI”) on a display device. The GUI has a plurality of selectable, actionable user interface elements such as tabs. In an embodiment, the GUI comprises a first tab selectable to display actual and planned net amount information of a cash position and actual and planned net amount graphs, the net amount information being cash out amounts subtracted from cash in amounts. The GUI comprises a second tab operable to display actual and planned cash in amount information and actual and cash in amount graphs. In an embodiment, the GUI comprises a third tab operable to display actual and planned cash out amount information and actual and planned cash out amount graphs.
US11074657B1
Techniques for gamifying risk management services include associating a financial status of a user with a defensible position display element in a gameplay scenario, receiving risk management data regarding at least one risk management service secured by the user, associating the risk management service with at least one defensive display element in the gameplay scenario, and providing the defensible position display element and each defensive display element to a display to cause the display to visualize the defensible position display element protected by each defensive display element in the gameplay scenario.
US11074641B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a requestor, a request for an on-demand product. The method further includes determining an eligibility token format applicable to the request, wherein the eligibility token format comprises a plurality of partial segments of identifying information. The method also includes prompting the requestor to provide a plurality of partial-segment values corresponding to the plurality of partial segments. In addition, the method includes receiving the plurality of partial-segment values in response to the prompting. Moreover, the method includes generating an eligibility token from the plurality of partial-segment values. The method also includes determining the requestor's eligibility for the on-demand product based, at least in part, on a lookup of the eligibility token in an eligibility token repository. The eligibility token repository includes a plurality of eligibility tokens of the eligibility token format.
US11074640B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that provide for a linking of a product database across different search platforms and then managing payments by a generalized search entity such that users are not transitioned to a merchant site from advertisements or search results. A method includes establishing, at a generalized search entity, a link to a product database of a merchant, offering, by the generalized search entity and based on a correlation of search terms to the product database of the merchant, search results across at least a first search platform and a second search platform and receiving, from a user, a confirmation of a payment for a product associated with a search result presented on the first search platform by the generalized search entity. The generalized search entity processes the payment for the product without transitioning the user to a site operated by the merchant.
US11074638B2
Techniques for removing purchases from online containers are described. For example, an indication of a purchase of a first product at a first store by a user is received. A user account associated with the user is identified. The user account has an online container for storing one or more desired products. The first product is matched to one or more desired products based on one or more product characteristics of the first product and of the one or more desired products. The one or more desired products that match the first product are removed from the online container.
US11074636B1
This disclosure describes various processes for collecting information about users from sources other than catalog activity data. This information can be used to generate recommendations for users with activity data deficiencies. Some example sources for this supplemental data include collaborative content sites, such as social networking sites. Social networking sites typically allow users to engage in conversations with other users through text, audio, and/or video. Conversation data collected from these sites or from other sources can be analyzed to infer user interests. A recommendation process (or other application) can use the inferred interests to supplement or take the place of catalog activity data.
US11074634B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for probabilistic item matching and searching. A system including at least one processor may be configured to receive a data point relating to a specific item, generate a database query based on the data point, and receive a response to the database query. The response may include multiple candidate items relating to the specific item. The system may be further configured to receive a first input relating to the specific item and generate a probability score for at least two candidate items of the multiple candidate items in the response, based on at least the second input. The system may be further configured to select a selected item from the candidate items, based on the probability score for the selected item. The system may be further configured to output a reference to, or value representing, the selected item.
US11074631B2
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for leveraging real-time sales volume for conducting group buys comprising initializing a sale of an item, the sale specifying a current price of the item which is calculated based on a current sales volume of the item and sales volume ranges, processing transactions with users for items at a purchase price equal to the current price when a purchase request is received from the corresponding user, terminating the sale of the item at a closing price when the current sales volume has reached a threshold or when a period of time has passed since the sale was initialized, and crediting accounts belonging to one or more users with an additional amount based at least in part on a difference between the closing price and the purchase price for each item for the corresponding user.
US11074621B2
A deal allocation platform is disclosed. The deal allocation platform may be configured to be used in multiple contexts, such as, for example, a batch processing context and a real-time context. Further, the deal allocation platform may be configured to reallocate users assigned to deals based on an approximation of a global optimization problem. In addition, the deal allocation platform may enable configuration of one or multiple experiments.
US11074618B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus accesses a memory to obtain information regarding sharing history (as pertains, for example, to a particular user and/or device) and uses that sharing history to display at least one recommended sharing action (from amongst a plurality of available candidate sharing actions) as regards to a particular content item (such as, for example, a particular digital photograph, a video, a presentation, and so forth). This sharing history can comprise previously-selected sharing actions as correlated to content item types including shared-content recipients, corresponding temporal data, shared-content size, corresponding location data, and so forth. By one approach the apparatus itself serves to automatically track user-based content-sharing selections over time, which information is stored as the aforementioned sharing history. By one approach the user is presented with an opportunity to assert a non-specific share command that triggers the aforementioned display of one or more recommended sharing actions.
US11074612B2
A payment system for parking locations communicates with a plurality of parking meters, each of which is associated with a predetermined geographic location corresponding to a parking location. The system receives user identifying information via a communication related to payment for a parking session at a parking location identified by the communication, and determines a user credit/debit card data for payment of the parking session based on the user identifying information. Data related to the parking session at the geographic location of the parking meter is stored in a database associated with a parking history of the user, and determines one or more advertisements to communicate to the user based on the geographic location of the parking meter and previously stored data related to the parking history of the user.
US11074608B2
Systems and methods for dynamically tracking delivery and performance of digital advertising placed on non-personal devices in physical locations and integrating, displaying, and reporting impressions and events in digital advertising systems.
US11074603B1
A promotion processing system may include a user device associated with a given user and geographically spaced apart communications servers each executing a respective chatbot. A promotion processing server may determine a first geographic zone of the given user based upon communications between the user device and a first geographically spaced apart communications server, and generate and communicate a digital promotion to the user device via a first chatbot. The digital promotion may have a redemption parameter based on the first geographic zone. The promotion processing server may determine a second geographic zone of the given user based upon communications between the user device and a second geographically spaced apart communications server, and determine whether the redemption parameter is valid in the second geographic zone, and when not, adjust the redemption parameter and communicate the digital promotion with the adjusted redemption parameter to the user device via a second chatbot.
US11074601B2
A system that compresses data during neural network training. A memory stores computer executable components and neural network data, and a processor executes computer executable components stored in the memory. An anticipatory value of inventory (VOI) optimization component calculates optimal VOI and prices for immediate-future inventory levels in parallel and writes latest price updates for respective states to a price stack; and a recommendation component provides customized pricing recommendation for a product relative to a unique customer as a function of the latest price updates for respective states to the price stack.
US11074594B2
The invention relates to a computer implemented method and system for generating a data collection process for a user device. The method comprises: receiving, at a third-party server, an instruction to begin a data collection process for a user operating a user device; receiving, at the third-party server, static data from the user device; determining, at the third-party server, a set of data to be collected from the user; generating, at the third-party server, code for a first data collection module based on the set of data to be collected from the user; providing, from the third-party server, the code for generating the first data collection module to the user device; receiving, at the third-party server, confirmation that a user of the user device has provided the information required by the first data collection module to the service-provider server; and determining if the user has provided the set of data to be collected.
US11074589B2
An onboard electronic system for logging and reporting driver activity and operation data of a vehicle. The system incorporates an onboard recorder operatively connected to a data bus of the vehicle and configured to continuously electronically monitor and obtain vehicle operation data including vehicle fuel consumption data and vehicle mileage data. A transmitter is adapted for transmitting the vehicle operation data from the onboard recorder to a remote terminal outside of the vehicle. Data processing software is operable for generating a fuel data report using the vehicle operation data, and determining based on the fuel data report whether a driver satisfies a vehicle operation requirement established by an authority.
US11074588B2
Tamper-proofing and secure identity validation techniques in a transaction processing system and secure electronic payment techniques are disclosed. A tamper-proof transaction processing device is provided and comprises at least two different strength adhesives to secure parts of the device together and a housing comprising at least a first and second protective layer. An electronic component comprising a secure element chip storing unique information relating to the chip is located between the first and second protective layer in the housing. In another aspect, a transaction processing system includes a payment instrument that is configured to approve only negative value and/or zero value transaction requests. Another aspect provides an identity card checking system and method where the identity card is brought into proximity of a data processing device and identity information is displayed on the screen of the data processing device for the period of time while the card is in proximity.
US11074584B2
A method includes a marketplace server establishing one or more security parameters for an exchange item and securely providing the one or more security parameters to a user computing device of the data communication system. When the user computing device desires to use the exchange item, the method further includes generating, by the user computing device, first dynamically secure exchange item data. The method further includes the marketplace server receiving the first dynamically secure exchange item data from the user computing device, generating second dynamically secure exchange item data, and comparing the first dynamically secure exchange item data with the second dynamically secure exchange item data. When the first dynamically secure exchange item data substantially matches the second dynamically secure exchange item data, the method further includes authorizing, by the marketplace server, the use of the exchange item by the user computing device.
US11074581B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication module, a memory configured to store payment information registered in a payment application, and a processor. The processor is configured to select at least one of a plurality of authentication servers based on the payment information, receive authentication information from the at least one authentication server by using the communication module, select at least one payment information of the payment information registered in the payment application based on a user input, select first authentication information, which corresponds to the selected payment information, from among the authentication information, and send second authentication information, which is generated based on the selected first authentication information, to the at least one authentication server corresponding to the selected first authentication information.
US11074580B2
A method and device for retrofitting a machine controller to accommodate one or more electronic peripheral devices is disclosed herein. A device with processor(s), memory, a slave interface, and host interface(s) performs as a virtual peripheral by registering itself as a slave to the machine controller coupled with the slave interface and performs as a virtual machine controller by registering peripheral(s) coupled with the host interface(s) as slaves to the device. The device receives a command from the machine controller via the slave interface and, in response to receiving the command: sends an acknowledgement to the machine controller via the slave interface; and relays the command to a respective peripheral via a respective one of the host interface(s), where the device sends signals to and from the machine controller asynchronous of sending signals to and from the peripheral(s).
US11074573B2
A computer program product for facilitating offline transactions includes: a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a user device to cause the user device to: receive an offline payment request from a merchant payment system via local communications; provide a payment approval message to the merchant payment system via the local communications to cause the merchant payment system to store the payment approval message; and provide offline transaction information to the payment server corresponding to the payment approval message; and provide the offline transaction information to the payment server corresponding to the payment approval message to the payment server when the user device and the payment server are connected via a network.
US11074549B2
A system for rush order fulfillment optimization is discussed. The system includes mobile devices that are each associated with a worker and a rush fulfillment engine executed by a computing system which dynamically updates a task queue of each worker upon receipt of a new rush order according to a task completion rate difference between an estimated task completion rate and the current task completion rate of the worker.
US11074540B2
A network system provides delivery of items using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones. The network system uses an infrastructure of nodes that include landing pads to dock drones, as well as interfaces to provide and receive items from docked drones. Nodes may be stationary (e.g., fixed at a building rooftop or public transit station) or mobile (e.g., mounted to a vehicle). The network system may determine a route for delivery of an item, where a drone transports the item for at least a portion of the route. For example, the route may include multiple waypoints associated with nodes between which drones travel. For other portions of the route, the network system may request a provider to transport the item using a ground-based vehicle.
US11074514B2
Anomaly scores for respective message types in computer log data and confidence intervals for respective anomaly scores are calculated based on a number of appearances of respective message types in a plurality of models generated from a historical set of computer log data. Respective models of the plurality of models can have at least a portion of the historical set of computer log data excluded from the respective models. Respective anomaly scores and respective confidence intervals can be applied to a new set of log data to identify and troubleshoot unusual log data events.
US11074510B2
One embodiment provides an apparatus, including: a sensor subsystem comprising i) a plurality of sensors that collect information about the apparatus' immediate environment and ii) at least one agent that fuses and interprets the collected information; a model subsystem comprising i) a plurality of models, including a model for each of the apparatus' immediate environment, sentient beings, and the apparatus itself, the models receiving the collected information and storing other information and ii) at least one agent that uses the collected information and the stored other information to deduce information about the apparatus' immediate environment; an actuator subsystem comprising a plurality of actuators that interact with the apparatus' immediate environment based upon the collected information and the information deduced by the model subsystem; and an agency subsystem comprising a plurality of agents that carry out plans according to goals identifying at least one desired outcome in relation to the apparatus' immediate environment.
US11074502B2
A computer system uses a pool of predefined functions and pre-trained networks to accelerate the process of building a large neural network or building a combination of (i) an ensemble of other machine learning systems with (ii) a deep neural network. Copies of a predefined function node or network may be placed in multiple locations in a network being built. In building a neural network using a pool of predefined networks, the computer system only needs to decide the relative location of each copy of a predefined network or function. The location may be determined by (i) the connections to a predefined network from source nodes and (ii) the connections from a predefined network to nodes in an upper network. The computer system may perform an iterative process of selecting trial locations for connecting arcs and evaluating the connections to choose the best ones.
US11074500B2
Disclosed are systems, techniques, and non-transitory storage media for predicting social media postings as being trusted news or a type of suspicious news. The systems, techniques, and non-transitory storage media are based on unique neural network architectures that learn from a combined representation including at least representations of social media posting content and a vector representation of communications among connected users.
US11074492B2
A method for implementing a convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerator on a target includes utilizing one or more processing elements to perform convolution. A configuration of the CNN accelerator is modified to change filters implemented by the CNN accelerator and to change formatting of output data. The one or more processing elements are utilized to perform one of deconvolution and backpropagation convolution in response to the change in the filters and formatting of the output data.
US11074487B1
Printers capable of determining a media type of a media and associated methods are provided. An example method includes scanning a media with a verifier associated with the printer to generate at least two consecutive windows of the media. The example method further includes determining a vertical length of a captured image based on a comparison of image characteristic values captured in the at least two consecutive windows. The example method further includes determining a media characteristic associated with the media based at least on the captured image and the vertical length and one or more stored media profiles. The example method further includes calibrating the printer based on the media characteristic.
US11074480B2
A learning method for acquiring at least one personalized reward function, used for performing a Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm, corresponding to a personalized optimal policy for a subject driver is provided. And the method includes steps of: (a) a learning device performing a process of instructing an adjustment reward network to generate first adjustment rewards, by referring to the information on actual actions and actual circumstance vectors in driving trajectories, a process of instructing a common reward module to generate first common rewards by referring to the actual actions and the actual circumstance vectors, and a process of instructing an estimation network to generate actual prospective values by referring to the actual circumstance vectors; and (b) the learning device instructing a first loss layer to generate an adjustment reward and to perform backpropagation to learn parameters of the adjustment reward network.
US11074477B2
A computing system and method for identifying related visual content of a collection of visual media files comprising one or more image files and video files includes monitoring inputs to the computing system, the inputs associated with a user interaction with electronic content using the computer system, identifying a visual media file in the collection of visual media files relevant to the electronic content based on a semantic label assigned to the visual media file by the computing system, creating a representative image of the identified visual media file, and displaying the representative image for selection. The computing system enables a selection of the displayed representative image for association of the identified visual media file with the electronic content.
US11074474B2
A method of operating a neural network device configured to perform a neural network operation on successively input image frames includes generating, by a processing circuit, a second delta feature map by performing a linear operation on a first delta feature map generated based on a difference between a current image frame and a previous image frame; loading feature values as a second previous feature map onto the processing circuit from at least one memory, the loaded feature values being feature values corresponding to a first partial region to be updated in a first feature map stored in the at least one memory; generating, at the processing circuit, a second current feature map based on the second delta feature map and the second previous feature map; and updating the first feature map by storing the second current feature map in the at least one memory.
US11074472B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for detecting and recognizing graphical character representations in image data using symmetrically-located blank areas are disclosed herein. An example disclosed method includes detecting blank areas in image data; identifying, using the processor, a symmetrically-located pair of the blank areas; and designating an area of the image data between the symmetrically-located pair of the blank areas as a candidate region for an image processing function.
US11074467B2
Optical sensing is provided for anti-spoofing of transparent spoof overlay material using pixel spreading detection. Some embodiments operate in context of an under-display optical fingerprint sensor integrated into an electronic device. An optical scanning system can direct illumination incident on a sensing region, which is redirected, by specular reflection off of a contact surface, onto an optical sensor in a predictable manner. When an object (e.g., finger) is in direct contact with a contact surface, the predictable specular correspondence is maintained. However, when a transparent spoof material is placed between the object and the contact surface, the spoof material produces additional specular and non-specular reflection, resulting in pixel spreading at the optical sensor. Thus, presence of the spoof material can be detected by detecting such pixel spreading. Some embodiments use illumination masking to help facilitate the pixel spreading detection.
US11074465B2
A detection system for a vehicle comprises at least one detection device configured to detect conditions in a passenger compartment of the vehicle and a controller. The controller is in communication with the at least one detection device. The controller is configured to monitor data from the at least one detection device prior to an entry of an occupant. Based on the data from the at least one detection device, the controller is further configured to identify at least one change in the passenger compartment of the vehicle. The at least one change in the passenger compartment indicates at least one of an item left behind in the passenger compartment, damage to the vehicle, and contamination of the vehicle.
US11074459B2
A system for monitoring a patient in a patient area having one or more detection zones, the system comprising one or more cameras, a user interface, and a computing system configured to receive a chronological series of frames from the one or more cameras, identify liquid candidates by comparing a current frame with a plurality of previous frames of the chronological series, determine locations of the liquid candidates, identify thermal signatures of the liquid candidates, determine types of liquids of the liquid candidates based on the locations and thermal signatures of the liquid candidates, and generate an alert with the user interface corresponding to the determined types of liquids.
US11074440B2
Systems, methods and media are disclosed for identifying the crossing of a virtual barrier. A person in a 3D image of a room may be circumscribed by a bounding box. The position of the bounding box may be monitored over time, relative to the virtual barrier. If the bounding box touches or crosses the virtual barrier, an alert may be sent to the person being monitored, a caregiver or a clinician.
US11074435B2
A method for predicting a face beauty grade includes the following steps of: acquiring a beautiful face image of a face beauty database, preprocessing the beautiful face image, and extracting a beauty feature vector of the beautiful face image, the preprocessing unifying data of the beautiful face image; recognizing continuous features of samples of the same type in a feature space by using a bionic pattern recognition model, and classifying the beauty feature vector to obtain a face beauty grade prediction model; and collecting a face image to be recognized, and inputting the face image to be recognized into the face beauty grade prediction model to predict a face beauty grade and obtain the beauty grade of the face image to be recognized.
US11074433B2
An information processing apparatus comprises an extraction part and a genetic information generation part. The extraction part extracts a phenotypic site(s) representing a genetic phenotype(s) of a living entity from the image. The genetic information generation part generates genetic information of the living entity captured in the image based on the phenotypic site(s) extracted by the extraction part. The image comprises a person image in which a person captured. The genetic information generation part may generate genetic information of the person captured in the person image.
US11074423B2
An object ID-centered workflow method utilizes an object identifier (ID) associated with an object. Forensic identification of serialization elements of the object ID enables access to a registry of workflows.
US11074420B2
A self-learning translation-engine brokering system characterizes a set of language-translation engines by associating each engine with values of a set of engine parameters. The system receives a request to translate text or speech input, along with a set of weightings that identify the relative importance of each engine parameter to the translation requester. The system formats the input into a quantifiable engine-agnostic form and performs an optimization procedure that finds the best fit between the source's weightings and the sets of engine parameters. The system directs the input to the best-fitting translation engine, receives the translated output from the selected engine, directs the output to the translation requester, and then determines how well the translated output meets user expectations. This feedback used to update the best-fitting engine's parametric values and to train the system to make more accurate selections in the future.
US11074406B2
A device for detecting a morpheme tagging corpus error, of the present invention, includes: an attribute generating unit for generating attributes for word phrases included in an input corpus, by using a kernel to which a rough set theory is applied; and an attribute statistics processing unit for generating part-of-speech tagging corpus error data through the calculation of attributes and frequency count for the same word phrases by counting attributes for the same word phrase among the word phrases, and thus the present invention can detect, quantify, and modify errors included in a corpus (learning data) required in learning for classifier generation and recognition for natural language processing.
US11074403B1
A computer system executes a spreadsheet application that accepts inputs from a user into a second cell of the spreadsheet document to reproduce a formula existing in a first cell of the spreadsheet. The formula references a first set for reference cells comprising one or more other cells in the spreadsheet document. Each of the one or more other cells in the spreadsheet document is positioned a relative distance from the first cell. The spreadsheet application reproduces the formula in the second cell while maintaining a link to cause any update of the formula in the first cell to be reflected in the second cell, and updates the formula in the second cell to generate a second set of reference cells wherein each cell in the second set of reference cells has a relative distance to the second cell that is equal to the relative distance of a corresponding cell in the first set of reference cells with respect to the first cell.
US11074385B2
A method for simulating a hierarchical circuit includes a bottom-up process and a top-down process in each of a series of iteration rounds. The bottom-up process starts from a bottom level of the hierarchical circuit and obtains submatrices and subvectors for each subcircuit instance (SCI) in the hierarchical circuit. For each SCI, after obtaining first and second submatrices and first and second subvectors of the each SCI, the second submatrix and the second subvector are passed up to the next level in the hierarchy and used to calculate the circuit equation for a parent SCI in the next level. In the top-down process, starting at a top circuit, signal values in each level of the hierarchical circuit are determined. Certain signal values of a parent SCI are passed down to each child SCI, and are used to determine the internal signal values of the child SCI together with the first submatrix and the first subvector of the child SCI.
US11074381B2
A hardware design for a main data transformation component is verified. The main data transformation component is representable as a hierarchical set of data transformation components which includes (i) a plurality of leaf data transformation components which do not have children, and (ii) one or more parent data transformation components which each comprise one or more child data transformation components. For each of the plurality of leaf data transformation components, it is verified that an instantiation of the hardware design for the leaf data transformation component generates an expected output transaction in response to each of a plurality of test input transactions. For each of the one or more parent data transformation components, it is formally verified, using a formal verification tool, that an instantiation of an abstracted hardware design for the parent data transformation component generates an expected output transaction in response to each of a plurality of test input transactions. The abstracted hardware design for the parent data transformation component represents each of the one or more child data transformation components of the parent data transformation component with a corresponding abstracted component that for a specific input transaction to the child data transformation component is configured to produce a specific output transaction with a causal deterministic relationship to the specific input transaction.
US11074379B2
For each of a plurality of source-sink pairs, a corresponding interconnect layer is selected having a reach length which permits propagation of a required signal within a required sink cycle delay. For a first clock cycle, a movable region for a first latch is located as a first plurality of overlapped regions one reach length from a source and the required sink cycle delay number of reach lengths from each one of the sinks; and the first plurality of overlapped regions is represented as nodes on a first cycle level of a topology search graph. Analogous actions are carried out for a second clock cycle of the required sink cycle delay. A latch tree is created based on the topology search graph, wherein a required number of latches is minimized, and at each of the cycle levels, all sinks of source nodes selected at a previous level are covered.
US11074363B2
Techniques are provided for selectively or completely redacting the text of database commands submitted to a database system. The database server receives the clear text version of the commands, parses the commands, and generates an execution plan, as normal. However, prior to providing the text of the commands to any location that is externally visible, the database server determines whether the command qualifies as “sensitive”. If the command qualifies as sensitive, then a redacted version of the command is generated. In the case of selective redaction, portions of the redacted version remain in clear text, while selected portions are replaced with encrypted text. In the case of total redaction, the entire command is replaced with encrypted text.
US11074357B2
A block chain defining authority and access to confidential data may not be encrypted, and the access to the block chain can be regulated by the block chain itself and an access control server operating in an enterprise information technology (IT) environment. To incorporate authority defined in multiple sources, such as the block chain and the access control server, a token can be created containing multiple layers of permissions, i.e. constraints, coming from multiple sources. Each additional permission attenuates the authority granted by the token. When a processor controlling the access to the block chain receives the token, the processor can check the validity of the token and the authority granted by the token to determine whether the requester is authorized to access at least a portion of the block chain.
US11074342B1
A computer-implemented method for scanning data including accessing a reference table including a grid of data cells arranged in columns and rows and containing reference data elements. Each of the rows may relate to one of a plurality of data subjects. The method may also include generating a list of reference subcombinations. The list of reference subcombinations may be generated by designating a primary column for uniquely identifying the data subjects and generating a plurality of first preliminary reference subcombinations. Each of the first preliminary reference subcombinations may include reference data elements gathered from the primary column and a second column of a single row of the reference table. The method may also include accessing a subject file having a plurality of data entries. Each of the data entries may include a plurality of logically-related and delimited subject data elements. The method may also include identifying and generating a match record for each instance in which one of the data entries contains all reference data elements of one of the reference subcombinations.
US11074341B2
Cybersecurity peer identification (CPI) technology obtains security group definitions from an identity directory, computes peerSimilarityScores that represent user similarity in terms of security permissions, and submits contextual cybersecurity peer data to cybersecurity peer-based functionality (CPBF). CPBF code may then perform behavior analytics, resource management, permissions management, or location management. Cyberattacks may then be disrupted or mitigated, and inefficiencies may be avoided or decreased. Having smaller security groups in common gives users higher peerSimilarityScores than having larger groups in common, as a result of logarithmic, reciprocal, or other score functions. Security group definitions are refreshed and peer scores are updated at regular intervals or on demand by CPI code, to avoid staleness. CPI code may be tuned by varying update intervals, varying cutoffs imposed on the size of security groups deemed suitable for use in computing peerSimilarityScores, or varying other parameters.
US11074339B2
A method of software article protection and transformation includes: retrieving a software article; identifying control flow addressing associated with the software article; removing at least a portion of the control flow addressing; and saving the at least a portion of the control flow addressing from the software article, wherein removing the at least a portion of the control flow addressing comprises replacing call and return functions with protected execution instructions, wherein the protected execution instructions replace call functions by: identifying, in a lookup table, an entry associated with a current instruction; and pushing a return address associated with the current instruction to a secure return stack; and wherein the protected execution instructions replace return functions by: popping the return address from the secure return stack; encrypting the at least a portion of the control flow addressing; and saving the at least a portion of the control flow addressing to a separate software article that is associated with the software article.
US11074338B2
A technique for securely rendering content downloaded over a network includes parsing a downloaded web page into a DOM (Document Object Model) tree and splitting the DOM tree into multiple DOM instances, where each DOM instance is dedicated to a respective type of web content. The technique processes each DOM instance using a respective render engine, which implements the security policy on the respective type of web content by blocking or altering content, and/or by limiting functionality that may be used in connection with the content.
US11074337B2
Techniques are described herein that are capable of increasing security of a password-protected resource based on publicly available data. For instance, password generation models may be extracted from passwords (e.g., encrypted versions of the passwords) that are generated by users. A user password (e.g., encrypted version of the user password) may be received to be utilized to access a designated password-protected resource from a user of a computing device. Publicly available data regarding the user may be obtained. The password generation models may be applied using the publicly available data to generate sample passwords. The sample passwords may be compared to the user password to determine that the user password and each of one or more of the sample passwords include at least one common element. An alternative password may be recommended for use by the user in lieu of the user password.
US11074332B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for securely transferring master keying material between a master dongle (10) and a slave dongle (12). Each dongle (10,12) is connected to a data transfer system. The slave dongle (12) contains a public key and a private key and the master dongle (10) contains master keying material that is to be transferred securely to the slave dongle (12). The data transfer system reads the slave dongle's public key and sends it to the master dongle (10). The master dongle (10) encrypts the master keying material with the slave dongle's public key to produce an encrypted master keying material. The encrypted master keying material is sent via the data transfer system to the slave dongle (12) and the slave dongle (12) decrypts the encrypted master keying material with the slave dongle's private key. This allows multiple users, each having a slave dongle (12a-n) that has been configured in this manner, to use the same master keying material to securely communicate with one another.
US11074330B2
A biometric recognition method comprising the step of calculating a similarity score between a candidate biometric vector and a reference biometric vector, at least one of the two biometric vectors being quantified.
US11074328B2
An authentication passphrase is analyzed to identify a first set of parts of speech in the passphrase. Based on comparing the first set with a second set of parts of speech corresponding to a stored passphrase, it is determined that the first set and the second set have less than a threshold number of common elements. In response to the determining, the passphrase is analyzed to score a level of a previously-set emotional tone in the passphrase. Access to a protected resource is allowed in response to the score being above a threshold.
US11074315B2
Systems and techniques for edge cache static asset optimization are described herein. A set of tracking instructions may be generated for execution at an edge cache server of the content delivery system. A static asset may be identified that is included in a webpage delivery session. A type may be determined for the static asset. The static asset may be grouped with a set of other static assets based on the type. The webpage request may be processed by processing the static asset. The set of tracking instructions may be transmitted to an edge cache server for storage in an edge cache of an edge network.
US11074303B2
Disclosed is a system for automatically summarizing documents pertaining to a predefined domain. A document finder module enables a web crawler to crawl web resources in order to find a plurality of documents. A keyword determination module determines a set of keywords from the plurality of documents and a rank associated to each keyword of the set of keywords. A clustering module clusters the plurality of documents into one or more clusters. A score computation module identifies a subset of the set of keywords for each cluster upon computing a similarity score, corresponding to each keyword, for each cluster. A summary generation module generates a summary for each cluster based on presence of one or more keywords, of the subset, in each document classified in the cluster.
